A visitor reads the Japanese-language information board at the Goshinboku stump in the Akasawa Nature Recreation Forest, Agematsu, Kiso, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The rootstock of a Sawara cypress (Chamaecyparis pisifera), felled in 1985 for the Ise Shrine's Shikinen Sengu renewal ritual in 1993, is marked as sacred with a shimenawa rope and shide paper strips and protected from the elements by a specially built wooden roof.