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the Tendai sect, called "RyUsenji' ("Dragon-spring- temple"), which 

 was said to have been built by a Dragon-king in one night; the 

 original Japanese dragon-god of the mountain was probably 

 identified with a Naga by the Tendai priests. On the "Dragon's 

 cape' in Iwashiro there is a waterfall (the favourite abode of 

 dragons), and a Bodhi-tree is evidence of Buddhist domination 

 in later times. 



By far the greater part of these names is found in Central 

 Japan, and they are rare in the South and the North I 



§ 2. The Chinese and Indian dragons (ryu or ryo). 



A. Names of mountains. 



The mountains are called RyU-zan or Ryo-zan ^ (in Iwashiro 

 and Uzen ; near the latter is a place called "Sacred Tail" *, which 

 probably means a dragon's taiP; Ryu ga mine^ ("Dragon's peak", 

 in Higo, resembling a lying dragon, and in Hida) ; Ryu no (or ga) 

 saki ' ("Dragon's cape", with a Buddhist "Blue Dragon temple", 

 Seiryuji^, in Tosa, and another, in the vicinity of which is a 

 Buddhist shrine called Kinryuji'^, or "Gold-dragon-temple", in 

 Hitachi); Ryu (or Ryo) ga take^° ("Dragon's peak", in Ise and 

 Uzen); Ryuzu-zaki ^^ ("Dragon's head cape", in Tosa); Uyuten- 

 yama '^ ("Dragon-Deva mountain", in Bizen); Ryu-o-zan '' ("Dragon- 

 king's mountain, in Bichu, with a little Shinto shrine '*, dedicated 

 to the Eight Great Dragon-kings, on the top, and two others 

 in Kawachi and Sanuki). A Ryu-d-tahe ^■' ("Dragon-king's peak") 

 is found in Chikuzen, and a Ryu-zo-san^'^ ("Dragon's claw- 



^ ft ^^'P- 2272. 



2 As to personal names, these are seldom connected with tatsu, except the three 

 following : Tatsu ( §§ ), Tatsuki ( ^M -^ , Dragon's tree) and Talsuzane ( ^t 



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Dragon's seed). 



3 ^ Uj , PP- 49 and 4393. 



4 jjj^ j^ , Kan-o. 5 Of. above, Book II, Ch. Ill, § 12, p. 177. 



6 -fl ll^, pp- 172i and 2234. 



7 ft flit . pp. 1358, 3571. 



ra m 



#. 9 ^fi#- 



10 fl ^, pp. 606, 4414. 11 fl 4| (l|^' P- 1353. 



12 ft 5^ lij . P- 912. 13 f I ^ [il , PP- 939. 311 and 1256. 



14 Cf. above, Book II, Ch. Ill, § 12, p. 176. 



^5 fl i #J' P- 1^52. 16 f I ;i; lil , P- 4455. 



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