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This article is about the building in Age of Empires IV: The Sultans Ascend. For the building in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties, see Torii Gates.

โ€œ Produces a Shinto Priest carrying a Yorishiro every 2 minutes. The first priest spawns instantly. Deposit up to 4 Yorishiro in buildings to provide unique bonuses.

Unlocks Shinto Shrines, which contains unique Shinto technologies and produces Shinto Priests.
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—In-game description

The Floating Gate is a religious landmark in Age of Empires IV: The Sultans Ascend, available to the Japanese in the Feudal Age. It unlocks the Shinto Shrine and periodically produces Shinto Priests holding Yorishiro, including one when constructed. Additional Shinto Priests can be trained from the Shinto Shrine.

Yorishiro[]

โ€œ Use a religious unit to pick up Yorishiro. Place a Yorishiro in any building to provide special bonuses. โ€

Yorishiro are special objects in Age of Empires IV: The Sultans Ascend, which are classified as a type of Religious Artifact in-game, similar to Relics. The Floating Gate will spawn a Shinto Priest holding a Yorishiro every two minutes, up to a maximum of four. Once four Yorishiro have been reached, the Floating Gate stops producing Shinto Priests. The maximum number of Yorishiro can be increased to 6 by researching Bunrei.

Yorishiro cannot be dropped, and are lost if the Shinto Priest holding it is killed. They can be deposited in any building to provide certain benefits. Once deposited, they permanently become a part of that specific building and cannot be ejected or moved anywhere else. If the building is destroyed, the Yorishiro enshrined in it is also lost. Once a Yorishiro has been lost, the Floating Gate will start production of a Shinto Priest holding a new one. Buildings with a Yorishiro gain a floating glowing ink scroll icon overhead and a stone lantern next to them to indicate that they contain a Yorishiro.

Benefits[]

Various building can be enshrined with one Yorishiro, which increases their Line of Sight. They also gain unique benefits based on the building:

Building Benefit
AoE4 Barracks Barracks, AoE4 ArcheryRange Archery Range, AoE4 Stable Stable, AoE4 SiegeWorkshop Siege Workshop, AoE4 Dock Dock +150% production speed
AoE4 TownCenter Town Center +30% production speed
AoE4 Farmhouse Farmhouse Generates 25 food every 20 seconds
AoE4 LumberCamp Lumber Camp Generates 25 wood every 20 seconds.
AoE4 Forge Forge Generates 20 gold every 20 seconds.
Wonder +4000 hit points

Upgrades[]

Technologies
Hpicon aoe2de Hit points AoE4 CourtArchitects Court Architects (+30%)
Line of Sight AoE4 GionFestival Gion Festival (+2 tiles)

Changelog[]

  • Prior to patch 9.1.370, Yorishiro functioned differently. They were independent objects which could be picked up and dropped like Relics. The Floating Gate would not spawn Shinto Priests, but rather individual Yorishiro instead. It would immediately spawn two Yorishiro upon construction, and would continue spawning them every three minutes. There was no limit to the number of Yorishiro that could be obtained.
  • With patch 9.2.628, the Bunrei technology was introduced that increases the maximum number of Yorishiro that could be spawned at The Floating Gate to 6.
  • Originally, the Yorishiro military building production speed, Town Center production speed, and gold generation were +200%, +25%, and 75 gold per minute respectively. With patch 11.1.1201, these were changed to +150%, +30%, and 60 gold per minute respectively.

Trivia[]

  • Its real life counterpart is the torii gate in the Itsukushima Shrine. It was first erected in 593 AD, then built up by Taira no Kiyomori in 1168 AD.
  • It is featured in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties as one of the Japanese Wonders, named Torii Gates.
  • Yorishiro are objects which are believed to attract Kami (spirits) in Shinto beliefs. A Yorishiro which is believed to have housed a Kami, is then called a Shintai. Sometimes even persons can be considered Yorishiros, i.e. possessed by the spirits, and are called Yorimashi. Yorishiros can be natural objects such as trees and certain rocks called Iwakura. They can also be swords, mirrors, and ritual implements such as staffs and wands called Gohei, beads, banners, pillars, and Torimono.

Gallery[]

Buildings in Age of Empires IV
Common/Generic
Economic AoE4 Farm Farm ยท AoE4 House House ยท AoE4 LumberCamp Lumber Camp ยท AoE4 Market Market ยท AoE4 Mill Mill ยท AoE4 MiningCamp Mining Camp ยท AoE4 TownCenter Town Center ยท AoE4 TradePost/AoE4 CoastalTradePost Trade Post
Military AoE4 ArcheryRange Archery Range ยท AoE4 Barracks Barracks ยท AoE4 Dock Dock ยท AoE4 SiegeWorkshop Siege Workshop ยท AoE4 Stable Stable
Technology AoE4 Blacksmith Blacksmith ยท AoE4 University University/Madrasa
Defense AoE4 Keep Keep ยท AoE4 Outpost Outpost (AoE4 TollOutpost Toll Outpost) ยท AoE4 PalisadeGate Palisade Gate ยท AoE4 PalisadeWall Palisade Wall ยท AoE4 StoneWall Stone Wall ยท AoE4 StoneWallGate Stone Wall Gate ยท AoE4 StoneWallTower Stone Wall Tower
Religious AoE4 Monastery Monastery ยท AoE4 Mosque Mosque ยท AoE4 Monastery Prayer Tent
Victory Wonder ยท Sacred Site
Unique
Byzantines AoE4 Byzantines AoE4 Aqueduct Aqueduct ยท AoE4 Cistern Cistern ยท AoE4 MercenaryHouse Mercenary House ยท AoE4 OliveGrove Olive Grove
Chinese AoE4 Chinese
Zhu Xis Legacy AoE4 Zhu Xi's Legacy
AoE4 Village Village ยท AoE4 Granary Granary ยท AoE4 Pagoda Pagoda
English AoE4 English AoE4 SetupCamp Campfire
Japanese AoE4 Japanese AoE4 BuddhistTemple Buddhist Temple ยท AoE4 Keep Castle ยท AoE4 Farmhouse Farmhouse ยท AoE4 Forge Forge ยท AoE4 ShintoShrine Shinto Shrine
Malians AoE4 Malians AoE4 CattleRanch Cattle Ranch ยท AoE4 PitMine Pit Mine
Mongols AoE4 Mongols AoE4 Ger Ger ยท AoE4 Ovoo Ovoo ยท AoE4 Pasture Pasture
Ottomans AoE4 Ottomans AoE4 MilitarySchool Military School
Rus AoE4 Rus AoE4 HuntingCabin Hunting Cabin ยท AoE4 WoodenFortress Wooden Fortress ยท AoE4 PalisadeGate Fortified Palisade Gate ยท AoE4 PalisadeWall Fortified Palisade Wall
Landmarks
Abbasid Dynasty AoE4 Abbasid Dynasty
Ayyubids AoE4 Ayyubids
AoE4 HouseOfWisdom House of Wisdom
Byzantines AoE4 Byzantines AoE4 GrandWinery Grand Winery ยท AoE4 ImperialHippodrome Imperial Hippodrome ยท AoE4 GoldenHornTower Golden Horn Tower ยท AoE4 CisternoftheFirstHill Cistern of the First Hill ยท AoE4 ForeignEngineeringCompany Foreign Engineering Company ยท AoE4 PalatineSchool Palatine School
Chinese AoE4 Chinese AoE4 ImperialAcademy Imperial Academy ยท AoE4 BarbicanOfTheSun Barbican of the Sun ยท AoE4 AstronomicalClocktower Astronomical Clocktower ยท AoE4 ImperialPalace Imperial Palace ยท AoE4 GreatWallGatehouse Great Wall Gatehouse ยท AoE4 SpiritWay Spirit Way
Delhi Sultanate AoE4 Delhi Sultanate AoE4 DomeOfTheFaith Dome of the Faith ยท AoE4 TowerOfVictory Tower of Victory ยท AoE4 CompoundOfTheDefender Compound of the Defender ยท AoE4 HouseOfLearning House of Learning ยท AoE4 HisarAcademy Hisar Academy ยท AoE4 PalaceOfTheSultan Palace of the Sultan
English AoE4 English AoE4 AbbeyOfKings Abbey of Kings ยท AoE4 CouncilHall Council Hall ยท AoE4 KingsPalace King's Palace ยท AoE4 TheWhiteTower The White Tower ยท AoE4 BerkshirePalace Berkshire Palace ยท AoE4 WynguardPalace Wynguard Palace
French AoE4 French
Jeanne d Arc AoE4 Jeanne d'Arc
AoE4 ChamberOfCommerce Chamber of Commerce ยท AoE4 SchoolOfCavalry School of Cavalry ยท AoE4 GuildHall Guild Hall ยท AoE4 RoyalInstitute Royal Institute ยท AoE4 CollegeOfArtillery College of Artillery ยท AoE4 RedPalace Red Palace
HRE AoE4 Holy Roman Empire
Order of the Dragon AoE4 Order of the Dragon
AoE4 AachenChapel Aachen Chapel ยท AoE4 MeinwerkPalace Meinwerk Palace ยท AoE4 BurgravePalace Burgrave Palace ยท AoE4 RegnitzCathedral Regnitz Cathedral ยท AoE4 ElzbachPalace Elzbach Palace ยท AoE4 PalaceOfSwabia Palace of Swabia
Japanese AoE4 Japanese AoE4 KokaTownship Koka Township ยท AoE4 KuraStorehouse Kura Storehouse ยท AoE4 FloatingGate Floating Gate ยท AoE4 TempleofEquality Temple of Equality ยท AoE4 CastleoftheCrow Castle of the Crow ยท AoE4 TanegashimaGunsmith Tanegashima Gunsmith
Malians AoE4 Malians AoE4 SaharanTradeNetwork Saharan Trade Network ยท AoE4 MansaQuarry Mansa Quarry ยท AoE4 GrandFulaniCorral Grand Fulani Corral ยท AoE4 FarimbaGarrison Farimba Garrison ยท AoE4 FortOfTheHuntress Fort of the Huntress ยท AoE4 GriotBara Griot Bara
Mongols AoE4 Mongols AoE4 DeerStones Deer Stones ยท AoE4 TheSilverTree The Silver Tree ยท AoE4 Kurultai Kurultai ยท AoE4 SteppeRedoubt Steppe Redoubt ยท AoE4 KhaganatePalace Khaganate Palace ยท AoE4 TheWhiteStupa The White Stupa
Ottomans AoE4 Ottomans AoE4 TwinMinaretMedrese Twin Minaret Medrese ยท AoE4 SultanhaniTradeNetwork Sultanhani Trade Network ยท AoE4 InstanbulImperialPalace Istanbul Imperial Palace ยท AoE4 MehmedImperialArmory Mehmed Imperial Armory ยท AoE4 IstanbulObservatory Istanbul Observatory ยท AoE4 SeaGateCastle Sea Gate Castle
Rus AoE4 Rus AoE4 Kremlin Kremlin ยท AoE4 TheGoldenGate The Golden Gate ยท AoE4 AbbeyOfTheTrinity Abbey of the Trinity ยท AoE4 HighTradeHouse High Trade House ยท AoE4 HighArmory High Armory ยท AoE4 SpasskayaTower Spasskaya Tower
Zhu Xis Legacy AoE4 Zhu Xi's Legacy AoE4 MeditationGardens Meditation Gardens ยท AoE4 JiangnanTower Jiangnan Tower ยท AoE4 MountLuAcademy Mount Lu Academy ยท AoE4 ShaolinMonastery Shaolin Monastery ยท AoE4 ZhuXisLibrary Zhu Xi's Library ยท AoE4 TempleoftheSun Temple of the Sun
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