Torii Styles
Structurally, the simplest is the shime torii or chūren torii (注連鳥居?) (see illustration below). Probably one of the oldest types of torii, it consists of two posts with a sacred rope called shimenawa tied between them.
All other torii can be divided in two families, the shinmei family (神明系?) and the myōjin family (明神系?). Torii of the first have only straight parts, the second have both straight and curved parts.
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