Torii

Torii - 01 - OverviewTo accompany the Stone Lanterns from my last post, today I have a LEGO Torii to share.  A torii is a traditional Japanese gate most often seen outside of shrines.  Like stone lanterns, I find torii to be a pleasant piece of Japanese architecture and fun to recreate with LEGO bricks!  Also like stone lanterns, each part of their construction has a name.  I did my best to represent each named component in my model.

At 93 pieces it’s certainly not my most complicated model.  However, I do think it’s my most accurate representation so far of something in real life that I’ve built a model of.

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