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Shachihoko (鯱・鯱鉾) – or
simply Shachi (鯱) – is a sea
monster in ****anese
folklore with the head of a
dragon or
tiger or lion and the body of a carp covered...
- name was
derived from two
prominent symbols of Nagoya. The
first is the
shachihoko (tiger-headed carp)
statues atop
Nagoya Castle, also
called shachi; this...
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Shachihoko Boy (しゃちほこBOY,
Shachihoko BOY) is a ****anese
professional wrestler currently working for the ****anese
promotion Dragon Gate
where he is a former...
- its own meaning, with
purple representing the iris laevigata, gold for
Shachihoko, the
golden tiger-fish roof
ornaments which are the
symbol of
Nagoya Castle...
-
famous for its large,
golden figures of
Shachihoko. The name is a
combination of the "shachi" in
Shachihoko and the "hachi" in Maruhachi,
which is the...
- out of a bowl,
which he is
often shown playing with on kagamibuta. The
shachihoko is a
creature with the head of a dragon, a
bushy tail,
fishlike scales...
- get too
close to open wells.
Isonade Namazu Ningyo Kun
Salmon of
Wisdom Shachihoko (****anese) – a
creature with the head of a
tiger and the body of a carp...
-
teams that
would eventually form the Dragons, then
known as the
Nagoya Shachihoko,
first met on
February 5, 1936 at
Narumi Baseball Stadium in the suburbs...
- (chidori-hafu), and are
capped with hip-and-gabled
roofs (irimoya-hafu) with
shachihoko finials. Not all ****anese
castles originally possessed tenshu (e.g. Sendai)...
- keep
partially collapsed in the 2016 quake, and
several of the castle's
shachihoko ornaments fell from the roof of the keep and
broke apart. It sustained...
