The Meiji shrine honours the spirits of the emperor Meiji, who died in 1912, and the empress Shouken. Completed in 1920 and virtually destroyed in an air raid in 1945, it was rebuilt in 1958 with funds raised in a nationwide public subscription. The two Torii at the entrance to the grounds on the Jingu, made from 1,700-year-old cypress trees from Mt Ari in Taiwan, tower 40 ft high; the cross pieces are 56 ft long. Torii are meant to symbolise the separation of the everyday secular world from the spiritual world of the Shintou shrine.