How does the Ise Shrine exemplify the beliefs and practices of Shintoism?

What will be an ideal response?

The ideal answer should include:
1. One of the most important aspects of the Shinto faith is ritual purification, which was derived from respect for the cycle of the season in which pure new life emerges in springtime and gives way to death in winter, yet is reborn again the following year.
2. Accordingly, since at least 690 CE, the shrine has been ritually rebuilt at 20-year intervals.
3. Many aspects of the Ise Shrine are typical of Shinto architecture: the wooden piles that raise the building off the ground, the horizontal logs that hold a thatched roof in place, and the unpainted cypress wood.
4. The use of wood and thatch conveys a sense of natural simplicity rather than elaborate decoration and corresponds to the Japanese appreciation of natural materials and the veneration of kami, which were though to inhabit many different aspects of nature.