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into the sea, and behold, all of a sudden the water rose tremendously 

 and filled the whole sea-bed. The frightened troops all prayed 

 for their lives, for the water covered even the whole of Koma 

 land. Then the pearl of ebb was thrown into the sea again, and 

 the water sank. So the Empress by Kasuga's assistance conquered 

 the enemy's army without shedding a single drop of blood, and 

 obtained three ships laden with tributes and treasures from the 

 king of Koma. 



In the Nihongi ' we read that in the second year of the Emperor 

 Chuai's reign (A. D. 193) the Empress Jingo found in the sea a 

 nyo-i-tama {-^ iS 3£)' ^ "jewel which grants all desires" {cintamani). 

 About such jewels the Indian Naga tales have taught us above ^. 

 Flokenz observes in a note to this passage ^, that the Usa no miya 

 engi * states that the Empress dbtained two jewels from the Dragon- 

 palace, the " kan-ju'''' and the "manju'", the above-mentioned ebb 

 and flood-jewels, and that this ^ book describes them as being 

 about five sun long, the former white and the latter blue. 



§ 8. Take-iwa Tatsu no Mikoto, the dragon-god of a sacred 

 pond in Hlgo province. 



The Sandai jitsuroku " mentions a Japanese dragon in the 

 following passage. "In Jogwan 6 (A. D. 864), on the 26th day 

 of the 12th month, the Dazaifu (^j^l^jjy^, the Government of 

 Tsukushi, i. e. the present Kyushu, which had its seat in Chikuzen) 

 reported to the Emperor the following facts: 'In Higo province, 

 Aso district, in the sacred pond of Take-iioa Tatsu no Mikoto 

 (# ^fi ^)' "The Dragon-god of the Strong Rock",' a god of 

 the upper second rank and the fifth Order of Merit (^, kun), 

 in the night of the third of the tenth month of last year [i. e. 

 the same year 864, because this would be "last year" at the 

 time when the Emperor received the letter] a sound was heard 

 and a shaking motion observed. The water of the pond leapt up 

 into the air and fell down in the East and West; that wich fell 

 in Eastern direction spread like a long strip of cloth, about ten 

 cho broad. The colour of the water was like that of shoyu (red) ; 

 it stuck to plants and trees, and even after ten days its traces 



1 Ch. VIII, p. 156: ;i0M^#^tt^^^-^'t'o 



2 Introd., p. 10. 3 L. 1., pp. 222, note 13. 



4 Usa Hachiman no miya engi, ^ '^ A l|^ *§* /^ ^ ' '^°P'®'^ ^^ ^^^ ^"'^'' 



5 ^ >f^ 3^ ^, written in 910; K.T.K., Vol. IV, Ch. IX, p. 167. 



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