A new wooden Shinto shrine crafted in Japan is now on display in Point Defiance Park’s Japanese Garden, carrying on a decadeslong tradition of friendship between Tacoma and its sister city, Kitakyushu, Japan.
Japan’s most sacred Shinto shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years for more than a millennium
Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that they strike from three directions.