The Textbook of Architecture

The Cabinet of Models

The torii

The gateway of a Shintō precinct: the plain shinmei type and the myōjin type with upcurved lintels and projecting tie beam.

The torii Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Japanese

The rules it illustrates

Two families of torii. Build the shinmei torii with a straight lintel, upright posts and a tie beam that does not project; build the myōjin torii with an upcurved double lintel, posts leaning slightly inward, and a tie beam that passes through them.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters China, Japan and Korea.

The terms it shows

Torii