Three of the exhibits in Osaka's castle-museum, life-size replicas of real pieces of the castle: one tiger like those that are on the façade of the top floor, a shachihoko (鯱), the sea-monster that is on the roof ridges and a crest like those that are beneath the shachihoko in the roofs.
(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr).
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