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A pair of komainu, the "a" on the right, the "um" on the left. Komainu (狛犬), often called lion-dogs in English, are statue pairs of lion-like creatures, which traditionally guard the entrance or gate of the shrine, or placed in front of or within the honden (inner sanctum) of Japanese Shinto shrines.
Shisa are wards, believed to protect from some evils. People place pairs of shisa on their rooftops or flanking the gates to their houses, with the left shisa traditionally having a closed mouth, the right one an open mouth. [1] The open mouth shisa traditionally wards off evil spirits, and the closed mouth shisa keeps good spirits in.
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Yoshiyuki Saito (born April 9, 1970) is a Japanese professional wrestler and restaurant owner best known by his ring name Super Shisa. He is best known for wrestling in Dragon Gate, where he was employed from its inception until April 2022.
Exactly 141 years ago at high noon, time changed forever in America. In Boston, time moved forward 16 minutes. In Baltimore 6. New Yorkers lost about 4 minutes.
A young Russian woman enjoying the beach has died after she was swept away by a large wave in Thailand, multiple news outlets report. Kamilla Beliatskaya, 24, was in Koh Samui, Thailand, on Friday ...
A man on Reddit says his boys' doctor suggested they eat meat — and after he fed it to them, his ex-wife called him "cruel" and told the boys to "refuse to eat"
There are a number of different definitions of free content in regular use. Legally, however, free content is very similar to open content.An analogy is a use of the rival terms free software and open-source, which describe ideological differences rather than legal ones.