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Japan's most sacred Shinto shrine rebuilt every 20yrs for more than a millennium
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, Japan (AP) — Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that they strike from three directions. A cypress tree falls as woodcutters use axes to fell it during Misomahajimesai, an early ceremony of the Shikinen Sengu ritual to rebuild main structures of the Ise Jingu shrine for Shinto deities, at the Akasawa national forest in Agematsu, central Japan, Tuesday, June 3, 2025. A cypress tree falls as woodcutters use axes to fell it during Misomahajimesai, an early ceremony of the Shikinen Sengu ritual to rebuild main structures of the Ise Jingu shrine for Shinto deities, at the Akasawa national forest in Agematsu, central Japan, Tuesday, June 3, 2025.
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