Main hall of the Inner Shrine, Ise
正殿
Artwork · Anonymous · building · Ise Jingū
The honden of the Naikū, the inner shrine of Ise dedicated to the sun goddess Amaterasu, whose mirror it holds. The classic example of shinmei-zukuri, reached through three further fences; since the reign of Empress Jitō (686–697) rebuilt every twenty years on the empty plot beside the old one — Mason knew the sixty-first rebuilding, of 1993. 1 Mason 2005, p. 55, fig. 60. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.