Meaning of karajishi | Babel Free

Definitions

A guardian lion figure found in Chinese and Japanese art.

Examples

“Titled “Picture of Fate: I Am but a Fisherman Who Angles in the Darkness of His Mind,” the Murakami is dominated by the exotic karajishi, or “China-lion,” who guards the threshold of Japanese Buddhist temples and is a frequent subject of Chinese and Japanese artists.”

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