Emperor to visit Ise shrine, ancestors' mausoleums

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are scheduled to visit Ise Jingu, a Shinto shrine in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, and mausoleums of previous monarchs by the end of this year as part of the rituals marking the imperial succession.Following the Nov. 14-15 Daijosai Great Thanksgiving Ceremony, a key rite to be performed by a new monarch once during his reign, the imperial couple will visit the shrine on Nov. 22-23 to ceremonially report the emperor's enthronement on May 1 to the ancestral deities of the imperial family enshrined there.Ise Jingu is said to enshrine Amaterasu Omikami, the …READ FULL ARTICLE