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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
believed to be male, the right one female. [ ] often the foxes wear red votive bibs similar to those worn by statues of other figures: for example, the buddhist bodhisattva figure jizō . in this case, however, the bibs seem to be purely a rite, whose origins are unclear. gallery[ edit ] a komainu with a horn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komainu