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During more than a thousand years it has evolved into a complex of nearly 200 temples and shrines.
At the rear of Wanshou Temple is a large rock garden with shrines to the gods of three of Buddhism’s sacred mountains in China, two pavilions built in 1761 (one housing a stone tablet with the engraved signature of Emperor Qianlong), and two arched gates constructed in the style of 18th-century Europe.
Indeed, so sacred are the Ise shrines that, despite the relatively peaceful coexistence of Shinto and Buddhism in Japan, Buddhist monks and nuns were banned from entering the precincts prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868.
Dim electric lights reveal niches at either end that are believed to have housed shrines: One now holds a damaged statue of the elephant-headed god, Ganesha.
While no more nor less significant than other countries’ national symbols and icons, the Shinto identity embodied in the shrines of Ise is quite distinct from Japan’s other man-made institutions.