Exploring the Shima Peninsula and its dense, green interior, stumbling upon sacred rituals and ceremonies, watching Japanese supplicants at prayer or making offerings in tiny forest shrines, add to the sensation of being connected in some mysterious fashion to a similar, but vastly larger, spiritual power grid. Located in Mie Prefecture, the entire peninsula, with its two sacred Geku (Outer) and Naiku (Inner) shrines acting as spiritual generators — central energy sources — for a host of smaller, untrammeled shrines, temples and holy sites, might be considered as one massive power spot. Every Japanese, even those with only a smidgen of pious yearning, want to pay homage to the Grand Shrines of Ise at least once in their lifetime. Read the full story on The Japan Times online. (Stephen Mansfield photos)
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