Shisas – Okinawa
All the pictures are from our recent trip to Okinawa.
Shisas are demons with body of dog and head of a lion. You can see them everywhere in Okinawa. Usually they sit on both side of the entrance door of the house but you can find them on the roofs also. One of them is always with opened mouth and the other one with closed (I learned from wikipedia that the one with opened mouth scares the evil spirits away and the one with the closed one keeps the good spirits in the house).
Here they are:
Quite expressive faces – aren’t they?
And another pair:
And the rest of the shisas (Actually I am cheating here. Let’s see if you can find the imposter:))
Of course nowadays you can find shisas in all sizes and forms in almost every Okinawa shop. Nice souvenirs (together with the awamori) arn’t they?
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