| These small torii were set up to prevent the unlawful dumping of garbage, taking advantage of the innate human reverence for it as an entrance to the sacred world, and there have been real-world examples in which dumping has dramatically decreased. |
このような小鳥居はゴミの不法投棄を避けるために設置されたもので、鳥居を聖域の入り口として恐れ敬う人間心理を利用したものであり、不法投棄が激減したという実例があるという。 |