Japan is dotted with bold archways that stand apart from the regular landscape. Some are more elaborate than others, but the basics remain: two pillars adjoined by one or two beams. Called torii, ...

Torii gates are iconic symbols found throughout Shinto shrines in Japan. They mark the crossing between the normal world to the sacred world. In ancient Japan, they were traditionally made of wood or ...

Jinja (shrines) are everywhere in Japan—more than 100,000! They’re not hard to spot. The entryway to a shrine is marked by a large torii (gate). This is in contrast to Buddhist temples that do not ...

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This page looks at the dramatic 'floating' torii (gate) of Itsukushima. The main building of Itsukushima shrine, in the town of Miyajima on Itsukushima Island, Hiroshima Prefecture, is believed to ...

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