Torii, the sacred portal of Japan 鳥居

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Torii au Japon

Torii au Japon

MustangJoe

Qu'est-ce qu'un torii et quelle est sa signification ?

Un torii (鳥居) est un portail traditionnel japonais que l'on trouve généralement à l'entrée des sanctuaires shintoïstes. Il marque la frontière entre l'espace profane et l'enceinte sacrée du sanctuaire. Le torii est devenu un des symboles les plus emblématiques du shintoïsme et du Japon.

Le mot "torii" signifie littéralement "là où se perchent les oiseaux". Selon la mythologie, les oiseaux seraient des messagers des dieux. Les torii serviraient donc de perchoir aux envoyés divins lorsqu'ils descendent sur terre.

Franchir un torii signifie pénétrer dans un espace pur et sacré. C'est un acte symbolique fort de respect et de purification avant d'approcher les kamis, les divinités shintoïstes. Les visiteurs se courbent par respect en passant sous un torii.

To do this, they installed roosters on a perch just in front of the entrance to the cave.

The name of the rooster, and the term designating the birds is pronounced tori (pronounce toli) almost like the name of the portal which is pronounced torii (tolii by lengthening the ii) and which is written with the kanji of the bird: "tori "associated with another ideogram.

For some, this legend would explain the origin of the name of the portal but also the fact that a portal is placed at the entrance of Shinto holy places because following this event, people would have started to build perches for birds. in front of the entrance to the sanctuaries.

sanctuaire-mishima

The sanctuaries hidden in the heart of the vegetation

http://mishima.link

Torii en pierre à l'entrée du temple bouddhiste Shitennô-ji

Wikipedia

There is sometimes a torii at the entrance of a Buddhist temple without there being a Shinto shrine in its enclosure. This is the case of the Shitennô-ji temple in Osaka, the oldest Buddhist temple in the country, erected in 593. There is a huge stone torii , which replaced the original one which was made of wood and which burned down. during a fire in 1294.

In the Shinto religion, the torii is a door that allows humans to access the spiritual world , protected by a divine force, then to come out to return to our secular world. Thus, the belief is that when you enter through a torii , you have to exit through the same portal in order to be able to return to the real world. Some Japanese do not hesitate to bypass a torii gate if they are not sure if they are coming back the same way or if they feel too unclean to enter a sacred space.

Ambiance mystique au torii du sanctuaire de Hakone

Ambiance mystique au torii du sanctuaire de Hakone

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Le grand torii d'Hakone-jinja

The great torii of Hakone-jinja

Jerome Laborde

As for " the alley with 10,000 torii of Fushimi Inari-taisha" , in Kyoto, his photo goes around the world every day. There, there is not a torii but several thousand which climb the path of the hill which leads to the sanctuary.

These portals were bought by businessmen or companies who, by offering a torii, hope to obtain the blessing of the gods. It's also a way to get some publicity. On the posts of the portal, they had their name written as well as the date of installation. The cost of a location for a small torii starts around 40,000 yen (around 340 euros) and can go up to over 1 million for the larger ones.

 

Torii of Itsukushima Shrine

Torii of Itsukushima Shrine.

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Fushimi Inari

Les torii de Fushimi Inari.

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