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 ...
ISE, Japan -- Lanterns and flaming torches emerge from the darkness as a robed priestess walks below centuries-old pine trees. Rows of solemn priests follow her up a long stone staircase, carrying a ...
ISE, JAPAN - Lanterns and flaming torches emerge from the darkness as a robed priestess walks below centuries-old pine trees. Rows of solemn priests follow her up a long stone staircase, carrying a ...
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 ...
People pull a sacred timber into the Ise Jingu shrine complex, as others follow during Mihishirogi Hoeishiki, a ceremony of the Shikinen Sengu ritual to rebuild its main structures for Shinto deities, ...
People pulling a sacred timber felled in the previous day's Misomahajimesai, an early ceremony of the Shikinen Sengu ritual to rebuild main structures of the Ise Jingu shrine for Shinto deities, ...
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