The Ise Jingu, the most sacred of the Shinto shrines in Japan, has commenced its most current rebuilding ceremony; it is a ritual followed every 20 years since a time exceeding 1,300 years ago. It is the start of a nine year period to demolish and rebuild all 125 buildings of the shrines completely with new material made of sacred cypress, and embodies the highly religious and cultural practices of Shintoism.
