Crossword-Solution: TORII 5 letters, 47 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The Effect of a Chicken—Poor Fare—Slow 143–145 Travelling—Objects of Interest—_Kak’ké_—The Fatal Close—A Great Fire—Security of the _Kuras_ LETTER XX.—(_Continued_.) Lunch in Public—A Grotesque Accident—Police 146–151 Inquiries—Man or Woman?—A Melancholy Stare—A Vicious Horse—An Ill-favoured Town—A Disappointment—A _Torii_ LETTER XX.—(_Concluded_.) A Casual Invitation—A Ludicrous Incident—Politeness of 152–154 a Policeman—A Comfortless Sunday—An Outrageous Irruption—A Privileged Stare LETTER XXI.

The entrance into the temple court was, as usual, by a _torii_, which consisted of two large posts 20 feet high, surmounted with cross beams, the upper one of which projects beyond the posts and frequently curves upwards at both ends.

There is a fine flight of moss-grown stone steps down to the water, a pretty bridge, two superb stone _torii_, some handsome stone lanterns, and then a grand flight of steep stone steps up a hillside dark with cryptomeria leads to a small Shintô shrine.

How describe a torii to those who have never looked at one even in a photograph or engraving? Two lofty columns, like gate-pillars, supporting horizontally two cross-beams, the lower and lighter beam having its ends fitted into the columns a little distance below their summits; the uppermost and larger beam supported upon the tops of the columns, and projecting well beyond them to right and left.

But this description can give no correct idea of the appearance of a torii, of its majestic aspect, of its mystical suggestiveness as a gateway.