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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.
The Shisa with mouth open is in essence saying "aw" - the beginning of the Japanese phonetic language. The mouth closed shisa is thus saying "nn" or "mm" as the end of the same alphabet. There is little evidence supporting this theory, but the unique similarities are striking.
Meant to ward off evil spirits, modern komainu statues usually are almost identical, but one has the mouth open, the other closed (however, exceptions exist, where both komainu have their mouth either open or closed [4]). The two forms are called a-gyō (阿形, lit. ' "a" shape ') and un-gyō (吽形, lit.
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Soon both women face their worst fear: Anghel's death. Left with the responsibility of raising their family Cora disguises herself as a beggar to make ends meet, at the same time attempting to bridge the gap between her and her oblivious daughter. Cast: Jennifer Sevilla, Eddie Gutierrez, Boots Anson-Roa, Precious Hipolito, Ester Chavez
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The 71st tankōbon of Case Closed released by Shogakukan in Japan on February 18, 2011 where the individual chapters of the arc are encapsulated. Holmes' Revelation (Japanese: ホームズの黙示録, Hepburn: Holmes no Mokushiroku) is the 217th story arc of the Japanese manga series Case Closed, known as Meitantei Conan (名探偵コナン, lit.
The 1908 bridge was moved to Washington State in 1934, where it is still in use as a bridge for BNSF Railway over the Cowlitz River near its mouth at Longview. [ 30 ] Despite these early rail bridges, a road bridge was keenly desired by residents of Terminal Island, who had asked for a wagon bridge in 1894 [ 31 ] and again in 1906.