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Tunnel of Toriiby ~Gitoku

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Apparently this tunnel of over a thousand torii at Fushimi Inari Jinja was used in Memoirs of a Geisha. I've not seen the film (because it looks like a great big pile of shit) so I wouldn't know for sure.

You can see my video of the tunnel on YouTube, though: [link]
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~nhocbee Jul 11, 2010
Your artwork has been featured here :iconshaplz:
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~OolongCha Jun 16, 2010  Student Interface Designer
The story in the movie is pretty terrible. But the cinematography is quite beautiful.

Anyway, I've never been here, but god, the colors of the nature and the torii are so beautiful together!
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~fadzreeq Jun 15, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
some japanese said it's call the torii gate for it's the place for birds (tori) to hung up there to bring souls to the afterworld~
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Mood: Joy ~Gitoku Jun 15, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Yeah, the kanji for torii can be read as "Bird Pirch" but Shinto is more associated with birth nowadays - death and funeral rites are more the domain of Buddhism.

Souls of the dead can be enshrined at Shinto Shrines to become kami so they don't actually go to any "afterworld", they reside, instead, in the "yashiro" the small house inside the shrine.

But it's an interesting point, though, about birds taking souls to the afterworld; it sounds logical although I've never heard of that before. I'll definitely do some research on it!
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~The-Midget-Drow Jun 15, 2010
I didnt think that Memoirs of a Geisha would be all that great either, until I broke down and checked it out at the library out of shear boredom, the first half of the film is brilliant and beautiful, but the last bit is sort of lame, I didn't really care to much for the ending, but as they always say about books that are made into movies, the book was much better...

Lovely shot by the way, I love the perspective and just how vast the torii really are compared to the people =3
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Mood: Humor ~Gitoku Jun 15, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Eh, I'm skeptical about a book written by a white American guy who thinks that he can write from the perspective of a Japanese woman...With blue eyes. You've certainly got to admire his confidence (or arrogance)! :laughing:

There are real autobiographies written by real Geisha (and translated into English) if that's what people are interested in, for instance, Sayo Masuda's Autobiography of a Geisha and Mineko Iwasaki's Geisha: A Life, which Arthur Golden based most of his book on.
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