Going through my photos, I realized I'd really taken an awful lot of pics of the different shisa statues in Okinawa. Shisa are a variation of the guardian lion statues of China. They're usually in pairs, flanking the gates to houses (or on rooftops), with the left shisa
having a closed mouth, the right one an open mouth. Everybody has these in Okinawa. Just about everybody.
This one... is fighting a losing battle.
And this (no offense) looks like it was made by me. >_>
These two were at the Ryukuan village at the Ocean expo Park.
At the Imperial Palace in Nara.
A family of three?
A few pictures from the Tsuboya pottery museum in Nara.
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