The Nonomiya Shrine is uniquely renowned for its special role in preparing imperial princesses to serve as vestal virgins at the Grand Shrine of Ise, Japan's most important Shinto shrine .
Imperial princesses were prepared to be vestal virgins at the Nonomiya Shrine.
There are three methods of cost  (a) directly tracing costs wherever economically feasible, (b) cause-and-effect, and (c) allocating costs on a reasonable and consistent basis.