Komainu lovery Gurdian Dog

Looks like dog? cat?

It is a Koma-Inu that is Gurdian Dog in jinjya shrine.

Do you know normally stand entrance in jinjya!

That one.

Exmple photo below.

It is also said Shishi lion.

However

Komainu was never meant to be a dog, but was thought to be an imaginary divine beast,

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