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MieShrines & TemplesThe collective name for 125 shrines, the Inner and Outer Shrines among them. The rebuilding every twenty years is a method of preservation aimed not at the building but at the skill of building it, and its root is the same as the passing on of crafts we have followed through this series.
MieShrines & TemplesKnown for the Wedded Rocks. It was the custom to purify yourself here before going on to Ise.
MieShrines & TemplesOn top of Mount Asama, sung of in the saying that a visit to Ise should include Asama. It is held to guard the demon gate of the Grand Shrine.
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MieShrines & TemplesYou purify your hands in the running river. The mother of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi gave the stone paving.
MieShrines & TemplesAn auxiliary shrine of the Inner Shrine. Four halls stand side by side.
MieShrines & TemplesIt enshrines the deity who opens the way, and is where people go before starting something new.
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MieShrines & TemplesIt enshrines Yamatohime-no-Mikoto, who chose where Ise Jingu would stand.
MieShrines & TemplesIt governs wind and rain. It was raised to the rank of miya for having sent the divine wind against the Mongol invasions.