Torii Gates Details - Kyoto Japan
by Stuart Litoff
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Torii Gates Details - Kyoto Japan
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Stuart Litoff
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Photograph - Photograph
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Details and Japanese characters along the trail framed by approximately 10,000 torii gates at the Fushimi Inari-taisha Shinto shrine in Kyoto, Japan. A torii is a traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance to or within a Shinto shrine, where it symbolically marks the transition from the mundane to the sacred. Each of the gates at the Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine was donated by a Japanese business. Structures at the shrine date back to the early 700's, and the custom of donating a torii started to spread during the Edo period (1603 – 1868) either to get a wish to become true or to thank for a wish that became true.
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August 25th, 2020
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Mike Schaffner
I've seen photos of these Torii gates many times but never a close up detail shot like this. Congrats on finding a new perspective and highlight a different aspect of these gates. Beautiful.
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