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hI P jjtt) is to be found on this spot, while a Buddhist shrine 

 of the Nichiren sect, called RyUkd-dera (^| p ^), proves how 

 the Buddhists adopted the old belief \ On the afore-said mountain 

 in Rikuzen a big rock in the shape of a dragon's head is worshipped 

 in a Shinto temple, called "Tatsu no kuchi jinja", or 'Shrine of 

 the Dragon's mouth". ^ 



^ Tatsu ga liana ^ ("Dragon's nose") is the name of a cliff in 

 Omi province, Sakata district, Tatsu-kushi* ("Dragon's skewer") 

 that of a rock in Tosa province, Hataya district. Tatsu-yama ^ 

 ("Dragon-mountains") are found in Harima, Innan district, and 

 in Owari, Higashi Kasuga'i district; a Tatsu-ko-yama'^ ("Little 

 dragon- mountain") is mentioned in Hitachi, Taga district, and 

 Tatsu-zaki ' ("Dragon's capes"), in Shimozuke, Sarushima district, 

 and in Iwashiro, Ishikawa district. In Mutsu province, Higashi 

 Tsugaru district, we find a Tatsu-bama-zaki^ ("Dragon-beach-cape"), 

 also called Tatsubi-zaki'^ ("Dragon's flight-cape"), and in Shinano, 

 Saku district, a Tatsu-oka '° ("Dragon-mound"). Further, a Tatsu- 

 no^^ ("Dragon-field"), also called Tatsu no ichi^'^ ("Dragon-market") 

 is to be found in Shinano, Ina district, and another Tatsu no ichi 

 in Yamato, Soe no kami district, where a Shinto-god, Tatsu no 

 ichi Myojin, is worshipped. In Harima, liho (or Iho) district, 

 there is a Tatsu-no " with an old castle of this name, built by 

 Mtta Yoshisada in 1334. Finally, we find villages called Tatsuta^* 

 (Dragon-ricefield) in Higo province, Akutaku district, and in 

 Yamato, Ikoma district. Near the latter place is the well-known 

 ancient Shinto shrine called Tatsuta jinja '^, which is dedicated 

 to the Wind-god and where prayers are offered up for wind and 

 rain. Also a Mount Tatsuta '", in the same vicinity, may be 

 mentioned, as well as a river, called Tatsuta-gawa ". On the 

 afore-said Tatsu-yama in Owari stood an old Buddhist temple of 



1 YosHiDA, p, 2715. 2 YosHiDA, p. 4208. 



3 fl ^, p. 558. ^ fi $ ' P- ^364. 



5 f I li( , pp. 861 and 2272. 6 || .ly. ^J , p. 3743. 



8 f|^;^Hlf,P-4752. 9 fl^Ul^. 



10 fl |Sj , p. 2434. H J^ 1^, p. 2364. 



12 fl-rfj. 13 fl^.p. 894. 



14 f I gg , pp. 1671 and 229. 



15 Cf. above, Book II, Oh. Ill, § 1, p. 153, and Book II, Ch. VIII, § 1, p. 220. 



16 P. 230. 17 P. 228. 



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