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Japanese Palace, was also called Ryubido, "Dr^gon-tail-rdad" '. 

 Other words borrowed from China are the following: Ryuteki, 

 fl"^. "dragon-flute"; ryubin, f|^, "dragon's whiskers", a 

 mat woven from rush^; according to the Pao F'oh-tsze {Sect. 

 ^ j^, Oh. IV, nr 17) it is the name of a kind of grass produced 

 by the whiskers of the dragon ridden by Hwang Ti. The oflBcials 

 who could not ascend the dragon got hold of its whiskers, but by 

 their weight pulled them out. Where the whiskers fell down, 

 the "Dragon's whiskers herb" shot up (cf. below, Book I, Ch. 

 VI, § 1); ryutan, fflJ, prono^^nced rindo, "Dragon's liver", a 

 species of gentian; three of these flowers, together with five sasa 

 ( ^ , a kind of small bamboo), formed the badge of the Minamoto 

 Family (sasa-rindo). ^ 



§ 1'2. Dragon-gate. 



: The Sin shi San TsHn hi^ says: "Lung men (^| f^, "Dragon- 

 gate") is another nanae for Ho tsin (j^q]'*^, "Ford of the Hwang 

 Ho "). Several jtho usands o fJbig-fa hnR na wftmHa. nndei^-tlm-Byftgan^ 

 ^atg__without_bei ng able t^ _ascfindjt (i. e. to swim against the 

 ^urrent)rThose whicli^ucHfifid_in_ascendingit be come dragons; 

 those whichTailTemainfishes". 



5 flsh changing Into a dragon, is represented on the altar 

 table of the Yuh-Fuh-tien in the Fah-yu temple on P'u t°o shan 

 (BoERSCHMANN , Die Baukiinst und religiose Kultur. der Chinesen, 

 Vol. I, p. 65), and dragons trying to grasp the mysterious fiery 

 "pearl", which is hanging in the Dragon-gate, are seen in the 

 same temple (1.1., pp. 46, 87, cf. below. Book 1, Ch. IV, § 4). 



As we shall see below (Book II, Ch. XI, § 2, B), there are 

 in Japan several Dragon-gate waterfalls, and also, in the province 

 of Kii, a Dragon-gate mountain. The latter reminds us of the 

 Lung-men mountain between the rivers I and Lo, not far from 

 the confluence of these rivers. ^ 



i Ryuan zuiMtsu, ^ ^ |^ ^ , written in 1819 by Kurihara SHiNJiJ(NoBUMiTSu), 

 ^^ j^ 'j^ 7L ; Ch. IX; Hyakka setsurin. Vol. ^j ~f» ^, p. 488. 



2 ^g , lin; Kokushi daijiten, p. 2338, s. v. ryubin. 



3 Ryuan zuihilsu, 1.1., pp. 485 sq. 



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