Jingu

Ujibashi Bridge

This bridge spans across the Isuzugawa River at the entrance of Naiku and is said to separate a sacred realm from the daily world. The architectural style of the Ujibashi Bridge is purely Japanese and its length is over 100 meters.This Bridge is rebuilt every twenty years as a part of Shikinen Sengu (a periodic transfer of the divine symbol to a divine palace which is newly constructed every twenty years).

Around Jingu

The History of Jingu

History – Amaterasu-omikami ('the great divinity illuminating heaven') is the sun goddess, the most important deity of the Shinto religion and ruler of Takama no Hara (the High Celestial Plain), the domain of the kami or spirits, was originally worshipped in the Imperial Palace by successive Emperors of Japan. However, during the reign of the 10th Emperor, Sujin, the Holy Mirror (the symbol of Amaterasu-omikami) was moved from the Imperial Palace. During the reign of the 11th Emperor, Suinin, the Emperor ordered his princess, Yamatohime-no-mikoto, to seek the most appropriate place to permanently enshrine and worship Amaterasu-omikami. After searching in many regions, the princess received a revelation that Amaterasu-omikami should be enshrined and worshipped eternally at in Ise, approximately 2,000 years ago. In the era of the 21st Emperor Yurayaku, about 1,500 years ago, Toyo’uke-no-omikami was, in accordance with another revelation from Amaterasu-omikami, summoned to the north of Kyoto prefecture and enshrined in Ise.

Amaterasu-omikami

Yamatohime-no-mikoto