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Ise Personal Offering Prohibition

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Japanese: 私幣禁断 shihei kindan
Class: INSTITUTIONAL ACCESS RESTRICTION

Personal offerings to Amaterasu at Ise were historically forbidden to everyone except the emperor.

Even:

  • empress;
  • emperor’s mother;
  • emperor’s grandmother;
  • crown prince

required imperial permission.

This is not purity taboo but control of access to sacrificial privilege.