First built 1,300 years ago, Ise Jingu Shrine has just entered its rebuilding cycle, considered a once-in-a-generation ritual ...
ISE, Japan — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that ...
Japan’s most sacred Shintō shrine has entered its once-every-20-years rebuilding cycle – here’s why that makes now an ...
ISE, Japan (AP) — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so ...