Hi.
Could you correct my English?
"Ise Grand Shrine"
I went to Ise Grand Shrine last week. Ise Grand Shrine is Headquarter of approximately 80,000 shrines, and the most traditional in Japan.
You would think Ise Grand Shrine has two distinctions. One of them is that the shrine has two gods.
There are 125 shrines within Ise Grand Shrine, and the two main shrines have each god. Not saints. The names are “Amaterasu-oomikami” and “Toyoukeno-ookami”. “Amaterasu-oomikami” is said to be one of ancestors of Tennoh(Emperor of Japna) and the Imperial Household of Japan.
The other distinction is that the two main shrine buildings and the gate bridge are rebuilt every 20 years.
You would think a very traditional shrine would be old and huge. However, Japanese people would have thought that gods would like to live in new houses. (We think gods lives in the shrines. Not in Heaven Above. So we can’t take pictures near the buildings. I took the picture shown below under the stairs in front of the building.)
Another reason of this rebuilding is the architectural style which is called Shinmeizukuri. That means the building doesn’t have groundwork. Ise Grand Shrine is one and only shrine which has this construction.
When I entered the gate of the shrine, it started raining. I walked about 20 minutes to get to one of the main buildings in the downpour. I thought gods might dislike me.
Thank you.
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