Ise lies in the east of the Kii peninsula on the island of Honshu. Here, some four kilometres apart, stand two of the main Shinto shrines of Japan – the Kotai-jingu, or Inner Shrine; and the Toyokedai-jingu, or Outer Shrine – as well as 125 ancillary shrines of various rank. Ise has been a place of pilgrimage from medieval times...