Sentence examples for shrine building from inspiring English sources

The most important shrine building is the main, or inner, sanctuary (honden), in which a sacred symbol called shintai (" kami body") or mitama-shiro ("divine spirit's symbol") is enshrined.

The most important shrine building is the main, or inner, sanctuary (honden), in which a sacred symbol called shintai ("kami body") or mitama-shiro ("divine spirit's symbol") is enshrined.

For a fee, the Capitol Hotel Tokyu can arrange for its guests to enter the typically off-limits shrine building and experience the atmospheric rituals of an authentic Shinto ceremony, from purification, meditation and prayer through to traditional sword dances to entertain the deities.

For a fee, the Capitol Hotel Tokyu can arrange for its guests to enter the typically off-limits shrine building to experience the atmospheric rituals of an authentic Shinto ceremony, from purification, meditation and prayer through to a traditional sword dance to entertain the deities.

The illustration associated with this scene shows the Imperial Messenger, Fujiwara no Norimichi, his head decorated with wisteria branches on the top of a staircase of a shrine building.

In the beginning Shintō had no shrine buildings.

The chief artistic achievement of its architecture is the way in which it conceives and coordinates the spaces between the walls of the enclosures, the faces of the terraces, and the volumes of the shrine buildings.

Kikuko Nishide, who runs a small museum near Ise Jingu, said she hoped G7 leaders would "experience the power of the forests and the shrine buildings and get a proper feel for Shinto and the spirit of the Japanese people".

It usually happened around the time of a sengu — every 20 years they rebuild the shrine, so they apparently started to use the shingles of the old shrine buildings as ofuda, a kind of talisman, which they used to throw to the people.

Initially, 44 temple and shrine buildings and 155 relics were designated under the new law, including the kon-dō at Hōryū-ji.

There is usually one or more T-shaped shrine buildings some distance in front of the tomb, which is set in extensive grounds, usually with a hill behind them, and facing a view towards water and distant hills.