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   by kugoretz 2y ago

   Thank you, I'll cross-reference with this!
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   by kugoretz 2y ago

   Thank you so much! When I start working on the book, I think a chapter will be dedicated to the use of the torii as a symbol in the US military, especially the Rakkasans. That's an excellent tip about Afghanistan, I'll see what I
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   by kugoretz 2y ago

   Thanks, they definitely will be in the future! Hoping to get a grant to help support the work.
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   by kugoretz 2y ago

   Thanks for your thoughtful engagement with my map! Grey pins are historical torii that do not exist anymore. I haven't really started mapping all of the some 1,600 colonial and settler shrines during Japan's modern imperial expans
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   by kugoretz 2y ago

   I’m afraid the gate there is technically a mon. T_T
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   by kugoretz 2y ago

   If I had a nickel for every time I was torii hunting and had my searches taken over by Torii Hunter content… XD
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   by kugoretz 2y ago

   Bingo! I will probably die before I could map all the torii in Japan (where I live). But everyone expects torii in Japan. Torii found elsewhere are fascinating to me. ^_^
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   by kugoretz 2y ago

   Thank you, that’s exactly what happened! I wanted to test a hunch that a majority of torii gates overseas are found in parks/gardens (the environmental connection, green pins) and things just sort of ballooned from there. My work argue
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   by kugoretz 2y ago

   Doko? ^^;
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    by kugoretz 2y ago

    Wow, that’s a beautiful one, thank you! I’ll add it soon. I suspect I am missing A LOT more in Brazil.
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    by kugoretz 2y ago

    Hi everyone! This is Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz, the creator of the map. I had no idea folks were talking about it here until someone just sent me the link. This is an early work-in-progress for my second book project. I created it to test a theor