I contributed a watercolor in the pair of stone guardian dogs of the Shinto shrine nearby exactly one year and ten months ago approximately two years ago, but challenged the watercolor of the again same pair of stone guardian dogs. On investigation I understood an unexpected thing about a pair of stone guardian dogs taking advantage of this. In the first place it means that it dates back to Ancient Orient and Mesopotamia in the origin of the pair of stone guardian dogs. The image of the lion protecting precincts is located in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and even India is that it is used the lion for both French sides as a protection beast more in the ancient times. It means that I came over to Japan with Buddhism from China of the times called Tang. I call a twin image a pair of stone guardian dogs, but what is located a pair of stone guardian dogs a lion namely a lion the left side the right towards a main shrine is that general now. A lion opens a mouth and has characteristic that a pair of stone guardian dogs keeps quiet, but the difference in the form is hardly found. The pair of stone guardian dogs seemed to post an angle in legendary beasts before. In addition, a lion image founds a mouth in “Agata”, and the left pair of stone guardian dogs image is “*kei”, and the form closing a mouth reflects the form of the two Deva kings image seen in the main gate of a Buddhist temple of the temple. By the way, a lion of Agata is if the pair of stone guardian dogs which I did faces the watercolor, and it is said exactly as it is the right side.
