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Display your favourite Plaque or Seal or Emblem with pride! An empty wall in your den or office can come to life with our Torigate. Painstakingly hand carved in 3D with 1/8 inch (3.20 mm) relief (tail fins or flashes flat finish) and hand painted these plaques and seals are made from solid mahogany wood and will be ready within about 8-10 weeks from placement of order. Plaques, emblems, insignia, logos, aircraft tail fins or seals for Military, Navy, Air Force, Army, FBI, Coast Guard, Marine Corps and many more are all available. If not already listed on our website we can bring to reality your military emblems and logos with a custom designed seal or plaque made to your own specifications. If you do not see the plaques, tail shield, tail fin or seal you require just click here to contact us and we will then let you have pricing.
A (鳥居・鳥æ& –・é¶æ& –?, lit. bird perch, English: /ˈtɔəri.iË/ is a traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine, where it symbolically marks the transition from the profane to the sacred (see Sacred-profane dichotomy The presence of a at the entrance is usually the simplest way to identify Shinto shrines, and a small icon represents them on Japanese road maps.note 1 They are however a common sight at Japanese Buddhist temples too, where they stand at the entrance of the temple’;s own shrine, called chinjusha (鎮守社?, tutelary god shrine) and usually very small.
Their first appearance in Japan can be reliably pinpointed to at least the mid-Heian period because they are mentioned in a text written in 922. The oldest extant stone was built in the 12th century and belongs to a Hachiman Shrine Yamagata prefecture. The oldest wooden is a ryÅbu torii (see description below) at KubÅ Hachiman Shrine in Yamanashi prefecture built in 1535.
were traditionally made from wood or stone, but today they can be also made of reinforced concrete, copper, stainless steel or other materials. They are usually either unpainted or painted vermilionwith a black upper lintel Inari shrines typically have many because someone who has been successful in business often donates in gratitude a Inari kami of fertility and industry. Fushimi Inari-taisha Kyoto has thousands of such , each bearing the donor’;s name.
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