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Large red torii gate with a curved roof stands in the water at the Itsukushima Shrine on Itsuku Island, Japan, with mountains and shoreline in the background. A large red torii gate stands at the entrance to a forest path leading to a Shinto shrine at Hakone-yama, Japan, flanked by stone lanterns and tall trees. Torii (gateway) to the Futarasan Shrine in Nikkō, Japan.

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Invalidated site: CiteSeerX - Adaptive Identification in Torii in the King Lattice. Sep 07, 2026
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Adaptive Identification in Torii in the King Lattice. Mar 08, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Torii Gateways and Shadows by Archana Hebbar Colquhoun (PDF). Dec 27, 2024
Add new Web site: Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System - Torii. Sep 15, 2023
Corrected display issue. Sep 10, 2019
Add new Web site: The Samurai Archives - SamuraiWiki - Torii. Oct 21, 2015
Media added. May 23, 2011
Article revised. Jul 22, 2005
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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