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日本式年遷宮：伊勢神宮的周期性重建作为知识连续性实践

Every twenty years, Ise Jingu’s Naiku and Geku shrines are dismantled and rebuilt identically on adjacent plots using traditional tools and techniques.
This is not restoration but deliberate, generational knowledge transfer—carpenters train apprentices solely for this single act.
Blueprints do not exist; continuity resides in muscle memory, seasonal timber selection, and oral calibration of joinery tolerances.
The 2013 reconstruction incorporated satellite-surveyed alignment data while forbidding power tools or modern adhesives.
Shikinen Sengū treats architectural knowledge as perishable—requiring embodied reenactment to survive institutional rupture.
Archaeologists confirmed that every post-1945 rebuilding preserved pre-Meiji carpentry logic erased elsewhere in Japan.
The ritual insists that fidelity lies not in static form but in replicable process under changing material constraints.
When typhoon damage delayed the 2033 cycle, planners convened intergenerational councils to renegotiate permissible timber substitutions.
This practice rejects digital archiving as sufficient; knowledge must be re-performed to remain authoritative.
Ise’s cyclical logic now informs Japan’s national disaster-resilience frameworks for cultural infrastructure.
Shikinen Sengū demonstrates how temporal discipline can sustain epistemic sovereignty across centuries.
It is architecture as pedagogy, not monument.