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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joan, post: 9496562, member: 5398&quot;]Thank you [USER=10944]@J Dagger[/USER] for that information....a new term for me.&nbsp; I spent quite a bit of time googling Shishi.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first examples I found were &quot;guardian lions&quot; (Shisa) at Naminoue Shrine, Okinawa, Japan, so I&#039;m wondering if the elderly gentleman who gave the little sash buckle to my sister may have purchased it as a souvenir while traveling in Okinawa -- or may even have been stationed in Okinawa while in the U.S. military and purchased it then.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>According to a website (<a href="https://www.kanpai-japan.com/lifestyle/shisa-okinawa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kanpai-japan.com/lifestyle/shisa-okinawa" rel="nofollow">https://www.kanpai-japan.com/lifestyle/shisa-okinawa</a>), &quot;<i>Shisa in modern culture...also known as 獅子 shi-shi (&quot;lion&quot;) in the local language, are found everywhere in Okinawa....Shisa also have cousins called 狛犬 koma-inu (“lion-dog&quot;) which you can sometimes see outside temples all over Japan...&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>I googled &quot;koma-inu&quot;, and found examples of &quot;lion-dog&quot; figures but they didn&#039;t include the little sunburst designs like those on my sister&#039;s sash buckle. The only examples I found that included the sunburst designs were linked to Okinawa, but I certainly didn&#039;t do an exhaustive search to rule out other possibilities.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, it&#039;s been interesting and educational doing the research. Thank you again, J Dagger.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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