Probably you already know that many kanji are made from a few simpler kanji. Here is a very interesting example - 峠 (とうげ). As you can see, it consists of mountain, up and down, thus meaning the crest part of a mountain pass. When people reached there in old days, they used to take a breath and put their hands together and bow, believing deities lived there. この表現は自然ですか？