Like Enoshima, Kitzuki has a torii for its city gate; but thetorii is not of bronze.
Then the angry sea began to grow calm; and the little vessel safely steamed into the holy port, and cast anchor before the great toriiof the shrine of the god!
The first pair are large as greyhounds; the second two are much smaller; and the sizes of the rest lessen as the dimensions of the torii lessen.
Passing the torii I ascend a flight of perhaps one hundred stone steps, and find at their summit a second torii, from whose lower cross-beam hangs festooned the mystic shimenawa.
The torii may be small or great according to the wealth of him who gives it; the very rich pilgrim may offer to the gods a torii of metal, such as that below, which is the Gate of Enoshima.
For his use alone a special bathing house has been built upon a ledge of the cliff overhanging the little settlement of Inasa: it is approached by a narrow pathway shadowed by pine-trees; and there is a torii before it, and shimenawa.
How describe a torii to those who have never looked at one even in a photograph or engraving?
This is really the gate of the city, facing the shrine of Benten by the land approach; but it is only the third torii of the imposing series through Katase: we did not see the others, having come by way of the coast.
About that time Tam glanced up and realized they were passing under a large torii gate, entryway to a place that seemingly had nothing to do with the real world.
The massive bronze torii arch leading into the shrine was always surrounded by stalls selling those marvelous little rice cakes, sweet and leaden, she remembered as a kid.
The credit of the invention is also given to Torii Kiyonobu, who worked at about this time, and, indeed, is said to have made the prints above mentioned.
Originally designed as a perch for fowls which sang to the deities at daybreak, this torii subsequently came to be erroneously regarded as a gateway characteristic of the Shinto shrine.
It might be well to explain that a toriiconsists of two upright columns several feet apart.
We proceeded up a long avenue, containing torii No.
Illustration: Torii Miyajima] Near the temple there is an imposing pagoda, also of ancient date, and on an adjacent knoll another shrine.
Another torii and a couple of two-storied gates were passed through, the last being called the Gate of the Three Luminaries, or the Sun, Moon, and Stars.
Entering through the great stone torii or gateway, we found stone lanterns, together with stone and bronze bulls presented by devotees.
On the way a samurai named Torii Suneemon arrived from the garrison of Nagashino with news that unless succour were speedily given the fortress could not hold out.
Its first exploit was to capture and burn the Momo-yama castle, which was splendidly defended by the veteran Torii Mototada, then in his sixty-second year.
But it being necessary to simulate trust in Mori and Ukita, then nominally his supporters, he placed in Momo-yama Castle a garrison of only two thousand men under his old and staunch friend, Torii Mototada.
After his death in 1695, the production of prints fell chiefly into the hands of Torii Kiyonobu and his son Torii Kiyomasu, two artists who take rank among the most talented men of the Ukiyoe school.
TORII SHIRO Known as Kiyonobu the second, all of his prints being signed Torii Kiyonobu.
All, however, were surpassed a few years later by Kiyonaga, the last great artist of the Torii line and the culminating figure in the history of the Popular School.
Four or five years later a new style of hand-colouring, said to have been devised by Torii Kiyonobu, came into vogue and greatly modified the style in which the prints were designed.
The leaders were Torii Kiyomitsu, Kitao Shigemasa, and Suzuki Harunobu.
The culmination was reached during the seventeen hundred and eighties, when Torii Kiyonaga turned out his marvellous single sheets, diptychs, and triptychs.
To these the Torii artists, seeing a new and fertile field for the print-designer in the rise of the theatre as a popular form of entertainment, added portraits of actors in the costumes of their most admired roles.
I had in front, as I sat in the booths, already damp and gusty with drafts, the face of the tall red pagoda behind its stone balustrade and at right angles to the great Toriithat I had been painting.
Below it the great temple wall was blotched with dark purple and black lichens, and the columns of the Torii were white at the bottom with mosses.
On the dark surface of the Torii glisten the golden Tokugawa crests; on the great tie-beam, the upper pillars, and the central upright.
Three different slopes lead within it to the paved court, where stands the high Torii of stone, through which one goes by the middle path to the high steps and the wall, the boundary of the temple.
Looking through a Torii one is sure to be in the direction of something sacred, whether it be temple or shrine or holy mountain.
Occasionally a shrine was visible within, and the obligatory Torii stood at the edge of the grove, or within its first limits.
We go across the sands amid piles of seaweed, picking up lovely trophies of the deep in mother-of-pearl and pink shells, until we reach the black wooden torii at the base of the island.
The sight of a torii makes us turn wearily away, and from a sāmmon (or gateway) we hastily flee.
In some, there are wooded knolls crowned by a chapel, with winding stone steps, that lead up from the black torii on the banks, where prayers are offered for sailors and the safe return of the fishing junks.
I wish to also ask you to transmit the Guardian’s grateful appreciation and thanks to Mr. Torii for his painstaking labours for the preparation of this new Braille publication on the Cause.
A search in later years located only those Tablets addressed to Mr. Torii himself.
The Guardian was pleased to hear Mr. Toriiis arranging for the Hidden Words in Braille.
Convey my deepest love and affection to Mr. Torii and Mr. Inouye and Mr. Saiki, and also to all others.
Photograph with the following caption:] Mr. and Mrs. Tokujiro Torii with Miss Alexander in 1916.
This torii and these lanterns of stone are ugly: I will erect a torii of gold; and I will make a thousand lamps of gold and a thousand of silver, and every evening I will light them.
Immediately a number of passengers rose to their feet, and, turning their faces toward the torii began to clap their hands in Shinto prayer.
A little within this gateway, which is opened to visitors only once a year, there is a torii facing the sepulchre; and before the highest terrace there are a pair of stone lamps.
But the peasantry of Tsubamezato had built a little Shinto miya on the sight of the temple, with a torii before it, and people still prayed there to Agonaoshi-Jizo.
This last curious fact reminded me of the little torii I had seen erected before the images of Jizo in the Cave of the Children's Ghosts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "torii" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
