MIE, Jun 10 (News On Japan) –
A ceremonial ritual to hold sacred timber into the Ise Grand Shrine’s Inner Shrine was held on June ninth in preparation for the subsequent Shikinen Sengu in 2033, when the shrine buildings are reconstructed as soon as each 20 years.
The ritual, generally known as Mihishirogi Hoeishiki, marks the formal supply of the particular wooden that will probably be used to craft the sacred container for the deity. This occasion is likely one of the key early steps main as much as the complete reconstruction of the shrine, a convention courting again greater than 1,300 years.
Held at Ise Jingu in Ise City, Mie Prefecture, the ceremony underscores the deep continuity and sacred rhythm of renewal that outline the Shikinen Sengu, an occasion the place all main shrine buildings are fully rebuilt to honor the deity enshrined inside.
Source: Kyodo