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imperial palace they were used to support screens or folding screens . during the early heian period (ninth century), the tradition changed and the two statues started to be different and be called differently. one had its mouth open and was called shishi (獅子, lion) because, as before, it resembled that animal
. the other had its mouth closed, looked rather like a dog, was called komainu, or " goguryeo dog", and sometimes had a single horn on its head. [ ] gradually the animals returned to be identical, but for their mouths, and ended up being called both komainu. [ ] ubiquitous as they are now at shrines,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komainu