Gathering the White Stones

One of the most important event held during the sengu at The Grand Shrine of Ise is the Oshira-ishi-mochi-gyouji (お白石持行事).

The event is to bring the Oshira-ishi stones from the riverbed of Miyagawa of Ise city that is used to cover the sacred ground of the honden main shrine.

The stones hold the electro-magnetic energy of the gods. They are like a battery. So, it is a very important event that has a significant spiritual purpose.

The stones that are now at the sacred ground had been there for the last twenty years. I sense they are covered with spiritual filth and worn-out. Looking at these facts, I know that sengu is necessary in order to purify the whole place.

As mentioned in the past blog, in the ancient days, I sense that these “white stones” were brought all the way from Haku-san to Ise.

The area where Hakusan-chukyo-jinjya (白山中居神社) is located, has a another name, Itoshiro (石徹白). It can be translated as “gathering white stones”. I sense that they used to gather the white stones from Haku-san and transported to Ise passing through Itoshiro. They would check the location of the sun as they walk. This is the original archetype of Sun Worship.

The religious archetype of the ancient civilization existed on the top of Haku-san. The Three Stone Pillars stood there where God Spirits resided. It stood in a perfect triangle.

“Three Pillars” or “a triangle form” is a fundamental secret in all religions in the world.

I sense that the human race started from the area of Haku-san. Therefore, it is natural to think that the religious basis of all religion comes from this area.

When you look at the Three Pillars from the sky, it makes a perfect triangle. The Star of David, the symbol used in Judaism is made out of two of this triangle. Many temples or shrines in the world are secretly using three pillar methods in building the main part of its building.

In Japan, the torii gate at the Shinto shrines used to be made out of three poles in a triangular shape. There are still remains seen in different parts of Japan.

The woods used to build the new shrines for the sengu are cut off in a special manner. They call is Mitsuo-giri (三ツ尾伐り - photo of the ceremony:http://www.yoitokose.jp/ise/sengu/00003.php). Three shrine carpenters put their axes from three different sections to make a triangular end. This is a trace from the three pillar tradition.

The sacred mountain Haku-san - there lays a secret of the original human races. Adam and Eve is the same spirit as Izanami and Izanagi.

All Haku-san Shrines worship Izanami and Izanagi as the main gods.

The couple may well have lived around the area of Itoshiro…


Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

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The Magnetic Energy of the Hōden

Hōden < 宝殿 > can be literally translated as the "treasure shrine". It is the storage shrine where the sacred treasures or the offerings are stored. Usually the storage shrines are apart from the main shrine, honden < 本殿 >, either behind the main shrine or somewhere in a hidden unnoticeable place.

However, at The Grand Shrine of Ise, it is different. The two hōden are placed on both sides of the honden. At the Gegū, the outer shrine, when the visitors are facing the main shrine, the two treasure shrines are in the front, and you see the main shrine in the back center. It seems as if the two treasure shrines are holding the sacred energy, and the god is worshipped by the visitors through that channel. At the Naigū, the inner shrine, the honden is in the front center and the hōden are placed at the back on both sides.

Some scholars say that these positioning are symmetric images of the celestial map. The main shrine is the North Star. The two treasure shrines represent the pair, the Big Dipper (the seven stars in the northern sky) and the Milk Dipper (the six stars in the southern sky). The fact that the two treasure shrines are placed in the front at Naikū and in the back at Gegū, signifies the summer and the winter solstice. I totally agree with the scholars on this.

But I would like to add a little more about the spiritual energy of the hōden, the two treasure shrines. At the Gegū, where the treasure shrines are placed in the front, I always feel an enormously strong divine power from the front. However, when I visit the Naikū where the two treasure shrines are placed in the back, the divine power is felt more from the back. I always thought strange of this.


So I asked the spirits of this secret. The answers I received was about the magnetic energy, the divine power, that comes from the hōden. The hōden are full of artworks/offerings that were made by the masters who put their soul into the craftsmanship. The art pieces hold the sacred magnetic energy from the craftsman. When the craftsmen are asked to donate their work to The Grand Shrine of Ise, they start from finding the right material. For example, if it was a lacquer dish, he would start from finding the right wood, the right lacquer. We could not imagine how many people become involved in this process. I have heard that some craftsman would surround his workspace with a shimenawa, sacred rope, and only allow limited people to enter his workspace. The offerings that are made with such care and soul would have a very high vibrational magnetic energy.

The hōden, the treasure shrine, that stores many of these offerings is like a high voltage battery. But the batteries do need to be changed after a while. And it seems like every twenty years is the right cycle. Even if the batteries are high in its spiritual voltage, after twenty years it is weakened.


At The Grand Shrine of Ise, they hold a big event every twenty years called “Shikinen-Sengu” <式年遷宮>. They rebuild the whole structure of the shrines and the offerings or the treasures.

As an esoteric art, this every twenty year ritual seems to be a pragmatic one. The people in the ancient times knew that the twenty year cycle was the limit for the objects to hold a high spiritual voltage to protect the divine power for the sacred land.

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The Origin of Sun Worship

At The Grand Shrine of Ise, they hold a big event every 20 years called “Shikinen-Sengu” 式年遷宮. They rebuild all the shrines from scratch. At The Grand Shrine of Ise, there is an open space next to all the shrines called “place of Sengu.” The open space is the exact same size space as the existing shrine. Every 20 years, they would rebuild the shrine on this open space.


All of the accessories and treasures called shinpō <神宝> are also renewed every 20 years. Why does it have to be 20 (futo in Japanese) ? There are many different theories, but simply know that it is done according to a divine will that has been kept from the ancient time.

The basic of Shinto is to worship the Sun. All the Shinji < 神事 >, events held at a Shinto shrine, reflects and signifies the movement of the sun or its character.

For example:

1. When the new shrine is rebuilt on the right side open space of the existing shrine, it means that the sun has been reborn and signifies a sunrise.

2. After 20 years, the shrine is taken down which signifies a sunset.

3. When the new shrine is rebuilt on the left side open space of the existing shrine, it means that the sun has reborn in another dimension.

4. After another 20 years, the sun rises again back in the same dimension.


This tells us that forty years cycle in our human cycle is equivalent to one day of the sun cycle = The World of the Gods.

It’s like the folk tale “Urashima-taro”, when a young man goes to The World of Gods < 神界 >, and returns in two days (= 80 years), he turns into an old man after returning to the World of Reality.

The space that holds the existing shrine represents the World of Reality, the physical body, the visible. And the open space of “Sengu” represents the World of Gods, the spiritual body, the invisible.

The man who created and started this curious event “Sengu” is Emperor Tenmu(673~86AC).

He is a very interesting character. He had created a war with his elder brother to fight for the Imperial Throne. He defeats his brother and become the Emperor. This karma has been going on in the Imperial Family even before him. Later Emperor Kammu had inherited this fate and kills his younger brother.



When I use my psychic vision to see the background of Emperor Tenmu, I sense the influence of Taoism that arrived from China. During his youth as a prince, he had left the Imperial Family and entered a monastery in Yoshino, Nara. He seemed to have gone to Ise, Kumano area as well to train in Shugendo* < 修験道 > and some Shinto rituals. I sense that through his training in Taoism and Shugendo*, he had come up with the idea of “Sengu.”

And even before the Sengu was establised, just 2000 years ago, Yamato-hime-no-mikoto(倭姫命), an Imperial Princess came up with the idea to built the Naikū of The Grand Shrine of Ise. She connected to the 8th rank* of Amaterasu-Ohomikami, the Sun Goddess, and was led by the ultimate 10th rank of Amaterasu-Ohomikami, the mother of all rank, to come to Ise and build the Naikū.

And before any shrine was built on the sacred ground of Ise, in the very ancient times, the local people of Ise visited this ground to worship the Stone Pillars. One pillar was brought from Haku-san as a stone that the Root God resides. It was placed where it is now the Gaikū. There was another stone pillar located at Izawa-no-miya of today which was said to represent the 10th rank of Amaterasu-Ohomikami. These stone pillars are now buried under these sacred grounds.

These traces are all led by the Kunitama <国魂>, the soul of a country, Amaterasu-Ohomikami (Sun Goddess) and Kunitokotachi-Ōkami (Earth God). The energy of these gods are guiding different families and people to the right place at the right time and governing Japan.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

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Ranks: According to the author, each god has ranks(derivatives) or different levels that can be sensed by humans. The higher the rank, the higher the vibrational energy.

Shugendo 修験道: Syncretic religious order which combined elements of ancient pre- Buddhist worship of mountains with the doctrine and ritual of Esoteric Buddhism.