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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.
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.
King's War is the second historical drama television series directed by Gao Xixi after Three Kingdoms (2010). The production cost for King's War was expected to break records as Bona Film Group announced on 8 June 2011 that it would provide Gao with a budget of 1.7 billion yuan for the project, excluding the costs for possible future expansions.
Crunchyroll has revealed the release date of the English dub for the first episode of Solo Leveling, and it’s actually surprisingly soon: January 20, 2024. That’s this weekend!
Tokusatsu (特撮), which literally means "special filming", is a Japanese term for live-action film or television drama that makes heavy use of special effects.Tokusatsu entertainment often deals with science fiction, fantasy or horror, but can also include kaiju, superhero, metal hero, mecha, and super sentai.
Taiga drama (Japanese: 大河ドラマ, Hepburn: Taiga dorama, "Big River Drama") is the name NHK gives to the annual year-long historical drama television series it broadcasts in Japan. Beginning in 1963 with the black-and-white Hana no Shōgai , starring kabuki actor Onoe Shoroku II and Awashima Chikage, the network regularly hires different ...
This episode is formatted in the same way as episode 39. In part one, Hayama's father builds a robot mother, who then proceeds to destroy Tokyo. Magical Angel Sana (a nod to both Akazukin Chacha and Nurse Angel Ririka SOS) tries to defeat Mecha-Hayama but is unexpectedly stopped by Akito. In part two, Sana is turned into a skunk, Akito is ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OKX, a leading cryptocurrency exchange and global onchain technology company, and Komainu, a leading regulated digital asset service provider and custodian, built by institutions for institutions, today announced an expansion of their partnership to offer institutional clients an enhanced off-exchange custody solution, further ...