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The famous torii at Itsukushima Shrine. A torii (Japanese: 鳥居, ) is a traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine, where it symbolically marks the transition from the mundane to the sacred, [1] and a spot where kami are welcomed and thought to travel through.
Etymology of Jinja from oracle bone characters. Jinja is the most general name for shrine. [9] Any place that owns a honden (本殿) is a jinja. [2] These two characters used to be read either "kamu-tsu-yashiro" or "mori" in kunyomi, both meaning "kami grove". [10]
With a few exceptions like Ise Grand Shrine and Izumo Taisha Shinto shrines before Buddhism were mostly temporary structures erected to a particular purpose. Buddhism brought to Japan the idea of permanent shrines and the presence of verandas, stone lanterns, and elaborate gates are some which are used both in a Shinto shrine and a Buddhist temple.
Sōmon – the gate at the entrance of a temple. [15] It often precedes the bigger and more important sanmon. Torii – This distinctive symbolic gate is usually associated with Shinto shrines; however, it is common at Buddhist temples too, as most have at least one. Uzumimon (埋門, lit. "buried gate") – Gates opened in a castle wall ...
A pair of komainu, the "a" on the right, the "um" on the left. Komainu (狛犬), often called lion-dogs in English, are statue pairs of lion-like creatures, which traditionally guard the entrance or gate of the shrine, or placed in front of or within the honden (inner sanctum) of Japanese Shinto shrines.
Daijingū Temple of Hawaii (ハワイ大神宮) Honolulu (天照皇大神) Amaterasu-Sume-Ōkami [1] (天之御中主神) Amenominakanushi-no-Kami (ジョージ・ワシントン) George Washington [1] [2] (エイブラハム・リンカーン) Abraham Lincoln [1] (カメハメハ1世) King Kamehameha [1] (カラカウア) King Kalakaua [1 ...
The sandō at Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto. A sandō (参道, visiting path) in Japanese architecture is the road approaching either a Shinto shrine or a Buddhist temple. [1] Its point of origin is usually straddled in the first case by a Shinto torii, in the second by a Buddhist sanmon, gates which mark the beginning of the shrine's or temple territory.
A torii gateway to the Yobito Shrine (Yobito-jinja) in Abashiri City, HokkaidoThere is no universally agreed definition of Shinto. [2] According to Joseph Cali and John Dougill, if there was "one single, broad definition of Shinto" that could be put forward, it would be that "Shinto is a belief in kami", the supernatural entities at the centre of the religion. [3]