Martial Arts Gear
Male Granite Fu Dog
This is a granite like Male Fu Dog. He stands about 4 3/4 inches high and is about 1 3/4 x 2 3/4.
Now 14.99 Stock # 7532.
Fo Dogs take their name from the Chinese term for Buddhism, fojiao, but are also known as ‘Fu Lions’, a homonym based on the Chinese word ‘Fu’ meaning luck or prosperity. In Japan, where the statues are placed outside Shinto shrines, the images are called shishi, which means ‘stone lion’ in Chinese. They are also known in Japan as ‘Korean dogs,’ probably because the statues reached Japan from China via Korea. Because the images have existed for so many years, the meaning of the symbols attached to the animals has grown and changed. Today, there are more explanations for each element of the statues’ iconography as there are differences in style.
