The section that interested me most was the Ise Jingu shrine. This building to me embodies the relationship between a physical building and the ideals of the people that occupy it. The Japanese have a close connection with nature, which highly influences this building. It is made out of materials (mostly wood) which are found close to the site. Yet the most incredible thing about Ise Jingu is that it is rebuilt every 20 years. It symbolizes the life/death cycle which we see so often in nature. Organisms die and their remains nourish new life. The shrine is rebuilt with new materials every year, and the old materials are given to other shrines to use. This is a most extreme case in which a building closely relates to the beliefs of the people who occupy it, which is why, out of everything we learned, it caught my interest the most.
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