Located at the confluence of the Takano and Kamo rivers, Shimogamo is one of Kyoto's oldest Shinto shrines, surrounded by Tadasu no Mori, a 124,000 sq meter virgin primeval forest preserved since the Jomon period.
The full decipherment and its observational protocol — where to stand, when, and what to watch for — are in the Kyoto field codex.
Or read the complete Florence codex free first.