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Okinawan Shisa statues represent guardian spirits based on lions. But they only kinda look like lions. Is this because no one on Okinawa had seen lions when the trend caught on, and they were hearing descriptions second or third hand?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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