Visitors passing beneath the great wooden torii on the wooded approach to the Ise Grand Shrine in Mie, Japan.

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Jinja Shinto

Church Directory · Non-Christian · Shinto

shrine Shinto, gathered since 1946 in the Association of Shinto Shrines.

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A plain wooden shrine building with a thatched roof stands among towering cedars in the sacred forest of the Ise Grand Shrine.

Art Entry The Ise Grand Shrine The most sacred shrine in Shinto is a plain cypress building that is torn down and rebuilt, identically, every twenty years — and has been for some thirteen centuries. Traditionally founded in remote antiquity; rebuilding cycle from the late 7th century

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