Taki

Taki lies in the fields of Ise, west of the great shrine. For centuries Saikū stood here as the residence of an imperial princess appointed to serve the shrine, with offices and attendants around her palace. The institution ended amid the upheavals of the fourteenth century. When a retainer of Ashikaga Takauji visited in 1342, he described fallen gates and high grass where the old enclosure had stood, a striking image of its abandonment.