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Lion. Powerful piece from Shogi variant.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Bn Em wrote on Tue, Apr 15 07:53 PM EDT in reply to Fergus Duniho from 06:30 PM:

Something of a shame then that the Kanji given are incorrect: the 麒麟 is the FD which in Chu promotes to lion, not the lion itself (the word as used in moern Japanese refers to Giraffes). The correct Kanji for the Lion (as per Wikipedia) are 獅子, meaning (unsurprisingly) Lion.