Water offering
Entrance for ivy
Ginkgo tree
Ginkgo
Vending machine
Self-portrait with rat and bottle
Woman at the window
Kanagawa Station, Tokyo
Shinkansen
Shinkansen
Shinkansen, Kanagawa Station
Racing to Kyoto
Industrious Japan
Kyoto Station, main entrance hall
Kyoto Station
Lots of architecture
The wave
Photo shoot
Cleaners at Kyoto Station
Tokyo tower reflection
Badger runs away with bottle of sake
Tokyo Tower
Torii (gate)
手水 (Temizu) basin for purification
Street corner, Tokyo
Street corner, Tokyo
Lantern at 高山神社 (Mountain Shrine)
Window food
日本の竜 (Nihon no ryū) at small Shinto shrine, Tokyo
Careful handling
高山神社 (Mountain Shrine)
狛犬・胡麻犬 (Komainu, the lion-dog guardian)
Paw of the lion-dog. 狛犬・胡麻犬 (Komainu)
Shinagawa Station
高山神社 (Mountain Shrine)
At the Mountain Shrine
Peony at the temple
Just a restaurant
View from Rappongi Hills, Tokyo
The shoppers
Small foot
I don't know what it says
Tokyo
Pink umbrella
Working men
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狛犬・胡麻犬 (Kumainu, guardian of the shrine)
Shrines are Shinto, Temples are Buddhist. Traditionally, there is a Kumainu on either side of a temple or shrine building, each in a slightly different pose. This lion-dog figure comes from Chinese Buddhism, which spread to Japan and elsewhere in Asia. In the case of Japan, many elements came via Korea.
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