Saturday, March 23, 2013

littele shrine dogs

torii-ornament

 鳥居の足下に小さな狛犬を見つけました!青色と金属の質感がいい感じです!!^o^
 the ornaments of the torii-gate(=gate of shrine in japan)of the Yushima-tenjin shrine. They may be a kind of komainu(shrine-dogs, a pair of statue of guardian dogs).They have beautiful deep metallic blue ! :-)
@ Yushima-tenmangu shrine,Tokyo,japan.