Ise Jingu and the origins of Japan

"Ise Jingu and the origins of Japan is the result of over a decade of work by photographer/author Miori Inata. It is an introduction to Japan's most revered religious site, Ise Jingu, and a photographic record of its unique, fascinating twenty-year ritual of renewal and rebirth. It is also a personal narrative describing the basic philosophy of the country's indigenous religion of Shinto, and how its naturalistic approach to harmony and sustainability can offer some lessons for living in today's increasingly complex world"--Dust jacket.