Also called banshi torii 伴氏鳥居. A stone entrance-gate to a Shinto shrine *torii 鳥居 of the myōjin type *myōjin torii 明神鳥居, distinguished by a pronounced curve of the top lintel *kasagi 笠木, and by being thicker at the ends than at the center. It is pentagonal in section. The secondary lintel *shimaki 島木, is also slightly curved. The insertion of the tie beam *nuki 貫, into the pillars is very shallow, and there are no wedges *kusabi 楔, used to secure it. A simple strut, gakuzuka 額束, without a frame or an inscription is centered between the tie beam and the bottom of the secondary lintel. The pillars have a pronounced inward incline *uchikorobi 内転, and are placed on circular base stones decorated with a Buddhist type lotus motif similar to the one seen at Kitano Tenmangū 北野天満宮, Kyoto. The Kitano Tenmangū torii can be dated to the Kamakura period and is placed in front of a tiny subsidiary shrine *massha 末社, said to have belonged to the Ban Clan, Banshi 伴氏. Examples: Banshi Jinja 伴氏神社 within the precinct of Kitano Tenmangū; Nakayama Jinja 中山神社 (1558) Okayama Prefecture.