Tori

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Tori may refer to: People

  • Tori, a professional wrestler
  • Tori Amos, pop/rock musician
  • Tori Busshi, a Japanese sculptor of Chinese ancestry active around 600 AD
  • Tori Hanson, the blue Wind Power Ranger from Power Rangers Ninja Storm, played by Sally Martin
  • Tori Spelling, actress.

Places

  • Tori Commune, a municipality in Pärnu County, Estonia
  • Tori (Georgia) is a historic province of Georgia
  • Torishima, several islands around Japan (the name means generically "bird island")

Other

  • the plural of torus, a solid of revolution in geometry
  • common anatomical landmarks, such as mandibular tori and palatal tori
  • In judo, the person who performs a technique; contrast uke
  • Tori (book), a book by Riichi Yokomitsu
  • Tori (journal), the name of the Japanese Journal of Ornithology until 1986
  • Tori Style, the artistic style of the Japanese Asuka period, named after Tori Busshi
  • Torii, a traditional Japanese gate commonly found at the entry to a Shinto shrine.