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My pond waterfall

DiOhio

By Diohio


My pond waterfall (Nymphaea alba)

The waterfall and some of my tropical plants. My husband built the red torii for me for my birthday one year. I showed him a picture of a red one that I saw in Japan.



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I absolutely love your Torii. Have you seen other forms of this, such as the v-shaped ones over a Christ or Mary Statute?

30 Apr, 2008

 

Lovely :)

30 Apr, 2008

 

WOW i truly love this well done!!!

19 Jun, 2008

 

What is a Tori? my husband could make me one too over my Pond.

26 Oct, 2008

 

Thanks everyone ! Earthsteward, no I don't think I've seen the kind you're talking about.
Eckie, a torii (with two i's on the end) is a Japanese structure, usually red and usually in water as far as I know, and is the entranceway to a shrine. I visited a shrine on a small Japanese island once when I lived over there, and was in awe of the huge red torii. That was my first encounter with Japanese Koi also, and I told myself then that one day I would have a Koi pond with a red torii. I consider it the entranceway to my shrine (woodland garden and koi pond).

If you 'Google' Japanese torii Miajima' you should be able to see the one I saw in person.

28 Oct, 2008

 

just amazing! well done!

28 Sep, 2011

 

Thank you !

28 Sep, 2011



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