AICHI –
Princess Aiko, the one daughter of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, arrived in Mie Prefecture on August 1 to attend a conventional occasion linked with the periodic rebuilding of Ise Jingu.
The princess arrived at Kintetsu Ujiyamada Station shortly after 3 p.m., the place she was welcomed by the governor of Mie Prefecture and different officers.
A big crowd gathered exterior the station regardless of the extreme warmth, and Princess Aiko smiled and waved to these ready to greet her.
The princess has had an curiosity within the Shikinen Sengu, the rebuilding of Ise Jingu carried out as soon as each 20 years, since elementary college. As a member of her college’s broadcasting committee, she as soon as wrote and delivered a report concerning the custom.
During her go to, Princess Aiko considered timber that might be used within the Shikinen Sengu and obtained an evidence of the strategy of marking the wooden with ink earlier than chopping pillars and different structural elements. She requested questions together with, “Is it difficult to write with ink?”
She additionally held a bundle of Japanese pampas grass used to thatch shrine roofs and remarked, “It is quite light.”
Princess Aiko is scheduled to watch the Onkihiki conventional timber-pulling occasion related to the Shikinen Sengu on August 2.
Source: FNN