Princess Aiko Pays Visit to Ise Grand Shrines in Mie Prefecture
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Princess Aiko visits the Inner Shrine of the Ise Grand Shrines in Ise, Mie Prefecture, on Tuesday.
11:36 JST, March 27, 2024
Princess Aiko visited the Ise Grand Shrines in Ise, Mie Prefecture, to report on her graduation from Gakushuin University, making her first solo trip to a rural area of the country.
Wearing a long white dress, the daughter of the Emperor and Empress visited the Outer Shrine on Tuesday in a light drizzle before visiting the Inner Shrine, which enshrines the sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami, Shinto’s most venerated deity. The princess offered a tamagushi tree branch to the goddess, who is also the Imperial family’s ancestral deity.
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