The Historian · Hana · Tokyo
Meiji Jingu
The approach takes twelve minutes to walk from the torii to the main hall. That duration is designed. Meiji architects understood processional time as a tool of reverence-manufacturing.
Built in 1920 to enshrine Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. The forest is planted — 100,000 trees from across Japan, donated by citizens. Nature here is a political act.
— Hana, The Historian
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