Keywords
Architecture
Shrines
Also misakedono 御酒殿; the prefix mi 御 is an honorific.
1 A shrine building specific to the Ise Jingū 伊勢神宮 in Mie Prefecture, where sacred rice wine, sake 酒, was brewed for offering to the gods and the emperor. While shrines no longer brew their own sake the sakadono building, 1632, remains at Kasuga Taisha 春日大社 in Nara. The building is 5 x 3 bays, with cypress bark, roofing *hiwadabuki 桧皮葺, covering a gable roof *kirizuma yane 切妻屋, built with untreated wood. The roof is cut open at the peak to form a smoke vent.
2 Sometimes used as an equivalent for a liquor shop sakaya 酒屋.

Ise Jingū Naikū Misakadono 伊勢神宮内宮御酒殿 (Mie)