The Ise Shrines are dismantled and rebuilt as exact copies on an adjacent site every twenty years. In this way, the buildings will be always new, but also always ancient and original. The tradition of reconstruction and relocation, known as Shikinen Sengū, has taken place since 690AD and will occur again for the sixty-second time in 2013. The ceremony enables traditional technologies to be preserved, along with an architectural style that would otherwise have decayed and disappeared long ago. Chiara Hall will tell the story of the Shikinen Sengū, accompanied by her drawings.
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