A shrine maiden in the sacred forest – Atsuta Shrine -

Atsuta Shrine is located in the center of Nagoya City, and a Shinto‐style wedding ceremony is often held at the shrine. This ceremony is a ritual described in 'Kojiki' or 'Nippon Shoki' that 'Izanagi no mikoto' and 'Izanami no mikoto' performed a ceremony for thier marrige, and it is one of the Japanese traditional culture that was born from Japanese people's aesthetics. A Shinto‐style wedding ceremony is a ritual that has been handed down to us through countless generations in Japan and is a ritual that symbolizes an aesthetic feeling of Japanese people for ‘WA’ and a spiritual feeling of Japanese people that treasures the Kizuna. That is why Japanese people treasure the shrine. At the wedding ceremony, the bride and groom and relatives visit the main shrine with the leadership of the shrine priest and the shrine maiden and perform a ceremony to report the marriage of the bride and groom to the great god of Atsuta shrine. It is a moment when Japanese people connect with Japanese mythological deities in their mind.

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Title : A shrine maiden in the sacred forest – Atsuta -

The bride and groom and relatives visit the main shrine with the leadership of the shrine priest and the shrine maiden.

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Title : Sacred forest connecting to japanese mythological age – Atsuta Shrine -

Atsuta Shrine is located on Atsuta-ku, Nagoya, Aichi prefecture in Japan and is one of the shinto shrines that guards Japan.

Creation of Atsuta Shrine begins with the enshrinement of Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi(草薙神剣） in this shrine. Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, the ancient sword that is considered one of the Three Sacred Treasures of Japan, is known as a sacred sword owned by Yamato Takeru-no-mikoto, one of the japanese gods. After the death of Yamato Takeru-no-mikoto, his wife enshrined this sacred sword in Atsuta. Since then, Atsuta Shrine has been familiar to many japanese as a precious shrine for ranking to the grand shrine of Ise.

The giant camphor tree(大楠) :
The third largest tree of 1000 years of age (about 8 meters around the trunk) is located to the north of the ‘Temizusya’.

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