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5 This attitude of the shachihoko is somewhat de rigueur, whence the common expression shachihoko dai, signifying to stand on ones head.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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There are large rocks in it, heavily mossed; and divers fantastic basins of stone for holding water; and stone lamps green with years; and a shachihoko, such as one sees at the peaked angles of castle roofs -- a great stone fish, an idealised porpoise, with its nose in the ground and its tail in the air.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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The Japanese call them shachihoko, which means the head of a tiger and body of a carp.
Berks county news 2009
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