1) Buddhist architecture 2) Japanese legendary creature 3) Mythological canine 4) Sculpture of lion
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==Symbolic meaning== Meant to ward off evil spirits, modern komainu statues are almost identical, but one has the mouth open, the other closed. This is a very common characteristic in religious statue pairs at both temples and shrines. This pattern is however Buddhist in origin (see the article about the Niō, human-form guardians of Buddhist temp...
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(from the article `Shint`) ...front of a shrine. Various kinds of torii can be seen in Japan, but their function is always the same: to divide the sacred precincts from the ...
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