If you get some New-Year postcards from your Japanese frends in 2009, you may find some pictures of ox on them. They are featured the Chinese zodiac sign of the Ox, because 2009 is a year of the ox. And year of the ox is the second year of the 12 years in the Chinese astrological calendar.
Dreemy Child By Ms. Yuriko Mudoh @ |
Ox, having milk By Ms/ Tomomi Ichida |
Fantasy ox By Biccyuu Hariko club |
Biccyuu Hariko club has just started to make bells of the Chinese zodiac. Some of them are shown here.
Ox By Mr. Jungo Tanaka |
Yufushima Island in Okinawa buffalo |
Nakayama dolls in Akita Pref. |
Click here, you can find more oxen-shaped clay bells.