Every two decades for the last 1,300 years, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine of Ise Jingu has been knocked down and rebuilt ...

Each generation, Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, is knocked down and rebuilt from scratch, a massive, $390 million demolition and construction job that takes about nine years.

Ise Jingu is Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, which every 20 years is completely knocked down and rebuilt in an expensive, ...

Every two decades, Shinto priests and skilled craftsmen rebuild Ise Jingu, Japan's revered shrine, in a ritual unchanged for 1,300 years. The cyclical process involves elaborate ceremonies, ...

ISE, Japan (AP) — A Shinto shrine that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is taking his Group of Seven counterparts to visit on Thursday is no ordinary shrine. The emperor of Japan was the head priest ...

In the West, art is usually considered a product. Rembrandt would paint a portrait for a patron; it would be a masterpiece, and that would be the end of it. Bernini would sculpt Apollo and Daphne, and ...

Shinto priests march into the main palace of Toyoukedaijingu, also known as Geku, or the outer sanctuary, of the Ise Jingu ...

People pull a sacred timber into the Ise Jingu shrine complex, as others follow during Mihishirogi Hoeishiki, a ceremony of ...

A dramatically pitted shoreline, exquisite seafood gathered from the sea by women freedivers, a lodestone of Shinto worship deep in a sacred wood — Japan’s Ise-Shima region is blessed with more than ...

Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes ...

Each generation, Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, is knocked down and rebuilt from scratch. It takes the ...