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2. Chinese guardian lions - Wikipedia

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   A blog about the adventures of a Foo Dog statue all over the United States. Netsuke: masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art , an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains many representations of Chinese guardian lions

3. Huishan clay figurine - Wikipedia

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   During the Xianfeng period of the Qing dynasty, the production of Huishan clay figurines began to flourish, and several large professional shops, such as Qian Wanfeng, Jiang Wansheng, Zhang Wanfeng, Hu Wansheng, and Zhou Kunji, opened one after another. Since then, due to the prosperous sales of clay figurines year by year, the number of ...

4. Komainu - Wikipedia

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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.

5. Shisa - Wikipedia

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   Shisa (Japanese: シーサー, Hepburn: shīsā, Okinawan: シーサー, romanized: shiisaa) is a traditional Ryukyuan cultural artifact and decoration derived from Chinese guardian lions, often seen in similar pairs, resembling a cross between a lion and a dog, from Okinawan mythology. Shisa are wards, believed to protect from some evils.

6. Tang dynasty tomb figures - Wikipedia

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   Dogs and farm animals, apart from some bulls at up to about 30 cm high, are more likely to be small and unglazed. [56] Along with guardian figures and officials, statues of horses are the main type of tomb figure that is also known in other media, such as gilt-bronze or stone, and some rich tombs also contain such figures in metal. [57]

7. Sanxing (deities) - Wikipedia

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   Fu, Lu, and Shou (traditional Chinese: 福 祿 壽; simplified Chinese: 福 禄 寿; pinyin: Fú Lù Shòu; Cantonese Yale: Fūk Luhk Sauh), or Cai, Zi and Shou (財子壽) are also the embodiments of Fortune , presiding over the planet Jupiter, Prosperity (Lu), presiding over Mizar (ζ Ursa Majoris), and Longevity , presiding over Canopus.