Monday 14 May 2007

oldest tori gate...

in Japan.... tori gates are gates to shrines, this stone one was built sometime between 794 - 1192 (Heian Era) making it pretty old in a land of earthquakes....it's evidence of the 'safeness' of yamagata! its 3.5m's high.....you can see the small shinto shrine and modern red painted metal tori gates too..

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting contrast between the old stone gate and the light red ones !

Unknown said...

Nice photo!!
I think that it looks motoki-no-torii(元木の鳥居) and one of the oldest torii in Japan. And it is great heritage of Yamagata.

yournotalone said...

Wow, it still stands there!

pusa said...

nice to hear the history and i love old structures like this. and waht a contrast to the brightly painted tori

Ming the Merciless said...

Very nice photo. I like the contrast between the rock tori and the wooden tori.

FunkyChicken said...

Oh the story I have to tell about this torii....