Den vänstra formationen är inu no kao, dvs en kogeima-förbindelse med två stenar på ikken tobi-avstånd. Termen betyder egentligen "hundansikte" och syftar på formen.

Formen i mitten är uma no kao, "hästansiktet". En alternativ beteckning är umazura med samma betydelse.

Till höger har vi kirin no kubi, "kirins hals" eller "kirins huvud".

Så här beskrivs kirin av Henri L. Joly i Legend in Japanese Art :

The mythical Chinese monster, K' ILIN, combining the male animal, K' I, and the female, LIN, into a compound name. Its body is that of a deer, its legs and hoofs like those of a horse, its head like a horse or a dragon, its tail like an ox or a lion. It has one horn on its head, the end of which is fleshy; its colour is yellow. The Li Ki book makes the monster twelve Chinese feet high, and of five colours. Some representations endow it with scales, but it is more usually hairy; in fact, it is the chief of the three hundred and sixty hairy creatures. This mythical monster is a paragon of virtue, filial and otherwise, treading so lightly as to produce no sound, nor hurting anything living, so just that it was appealed to in difficult cases by the Emperor Kao Yu, living alone, and appearing only under wise rulers as a lucky omen. It appeared to the mother of Confusius and to Confusius himself.