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Symbol Image References Flag: Flag of Japan: Hinomaru: Crest: Imperial Seal of Japan (Chrysanthemum morifolium) Imperial Seal of Japan: National anthem: Kimigayo 君が代 Kimigayo: Government Seal: Government Seal of Japan Government Seal of Japan: National butterfly: Great purple emperor (Sasakia charonda) Great purple emperor: National tree ...
The gibbon in China: An essay in Chinese animal lore. E. J. Brill. Keene, Donald (2006), Frog In The Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan 1793–1841, Columbia University Press. Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko (1989). The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691028460.
Mount Fuji and sakura (cherry blossoms) are national symbols of Japan. The Japanese archipelago is located to the east of the Asian continent. Japan is regarded as the most eastern Asian country, because east of Japan is the vast Pacific Ocean. Minamitorishima is Japan's easternmost island. Thus Japan is the land where the sun rises before the ...
The capture and sale of "insect musicians", insects that produce audible calls, was a popular practice in the animal trade sector during eighteenth and nineteenth century Japan, alongside the trade of live birds. [4]: 14 Two sounds that feature heavily within the perception of insect sounds in Japan are the sounds of cicadas and bell crickets ...
In Japan, the serow is widely thought of as a kind of deer, though deer and serows are in different families. In the past, the Japanese word kamoshika [c] was written using the Chinese character for shika, meaning "deer". [d] Today, when written using Chinese characters, the characters for "antelope" and "sheep" [e] are used.
Hachiman (八幡神) is the god of war and the divine protector of Japan and its people. Originally an agricultural deity, he later became the guardian of the Minamoto clan. His symbolic animal and messenger is the dove. Inari Ōkami (稲荷大神) The god or goddess of rice and fertility. Their messengers and symbolic animal are foxes.
Bird meanings and symbolism are open to wide interpretation and can vary across cultures and traditions. Popularly, owls are associated with wisdom, and doves are widely associated with peace.
The shīsā (シーサー), the stone animals that in Okinawa guard the gates or the roofs of houses, are close relatives of the shishi and the komainu, objects whose origin, function and symbolic meaning they share. [22] Their name itself is centuries old regional variant of shishi-san (獅子さん, lit. ' Mr. Lion '). [6]