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Showing posts with label Shisa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shisa. Show all posts
Thursday, December 31, 2020

New Year's Eve Afternoon Stroll with the iPhone

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 Wet and Cold Winter Weather Normally, I'm out with the camera, backpack, and dog, early in the morning. With wannabe typhoon-like winds...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

Two Old Favorite Shisa in Yaese Town Okinawa

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Tomori Stone Lion There are 14 of these original stone lions  (Shisa) to be found in Yaese. The most famous is the bullet s...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Wordless Wednesday: Okinawa Wall Art

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LOCATION
Thursday, August 17, 2017

Okinawan Folktale: Origins of Okinawa Shisa

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Two Original Stone Shisa Statues There are hundreds of thousands of them if, you counted every Shisa on the island. The Shisa (...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Wordless Wednesday: Tomori Stone Shisa (Stone Lion) in Yaese

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Thursday, June 15, 2017

Stop and Think: How Many Characters Named Donald Do You Know ?

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Pottery District of Naha Down in the district know as Tsuboya I ran across this scene one day. A Donald Duck doll was taking u...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

15 Images of Okinawa Shisa Statues

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Sold Throughout the Islands The Shisa are guardians of homes and businesses located in the Ryukyu Island Chain.  Properly p...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Travel Photo: Nice Day in January

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Traditional Okinawan Architecture     For all the talk of snow in Okinawa, the weather sure turned out nice today. Conditions...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

The Shisa (Liondogs) of Kin Bridge

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Heading north on HWY329 this shisa is on the left side of the road. Directly across the street sits the other shisa facing to...
Monday, February 9, 2015

Sometimes a Real Dog Is on the Roof of an Okinawan Home

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We all get used to seeing the clay statues on the tiled roofs around here. Those are called Shisa and, they are supposed to ward o...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Plenty of Wildlife and Nature Activity at the Nagahama Dam

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Birds Were Everywhere Today   Yesterday, I just posted a photo showing the park below the dam. We went there today wit...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Portrait of a Shisa

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This is one of my favorite spur of the moment shots taken of a Shisa (Lion-Dog). More of my shots of these Lion-Dogs protecting homes,...
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