A few statues in shrines around Tokyo have the red bib around them. Both animal and human status might be wearing the bib. Known as a devotion bib, someone has asked that spirit, represented by the statue to watch out for a child or infant.
I couldn't get a picture of the oddly tailless cats that were all over the temple courtyard. Well, I did, but all that showed were a pair of gleaming eyes.
However, at the gate to the shrine are these two enormous Buddhas - someone old me they are guardian Buddhas, meant to protect the shrine.
Forboding, aren't they?
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