Gallery
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A tablet on a torii at Nikkō Tōshō-gū covers the gakuzuka
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The typical pentagonal profile of a torii's kasagi. Note the black nemaki.
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A row of torii
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One-legged torii, Sannō Shrine, Nagasaki, Japan. The other half was toppled in the explosion of the nuclear bomb.
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An unusual white and red Nakayama torii
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A shime torii
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Rows of tiny votive torii donated by the faithful
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An unusual kaku-torii (角鳥居?, lit. square torii) at Sumiyoshi Taisha: the nuki does not protrude and all members are square in section
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“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
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“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)