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Hoori went searching to the bottom of the sea, where he met and married Toyotama-hime, the daughter of the dragon Sea God. After living three years in the undersea Ryūgū-jō 竜宮城 "dragon palace castle", Ryūjin presented Hoori with his brother's fishhook and the tide jewels, and arranged for him to take his sea-dragon bride back to land.
Once there was an old man who caught fish for a living. One day, the fisherman caught a large carp but let it go when he saw the carp shedding tears. When the fisherman went to the seashore the next day, a boy appeared, introduced himself as the son of the Dragon King of the Sea, and told the fisherman that he was the carp the fisherman had spared the day before.
Ryūgū or Ryūgū-jō is the fabulous mythical residence of the Ryūjin (Dragon God) or Sea God, or the princess Otohime. [1] It is also equated with the "fish-scale palace" (iroko no goto tsukureru miya) which was the Sea God Watatsumi's palace mentioned in the Kojiki (8th century).
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The Dragon King has nine sons: Little Yellow Dragon (小黃龍), who oversees the Huai River; Little Black Dragon (小驪龍), who oversees the Ji River; Green-Backed Dragon (青背龍), who oversees the Yangtze; Red-Bearded Dragon (赤髯龍), who oversees the Yellow River; Fortunate Old Dragon (福老龍), who serves as a bell keeper for the ...
The dragon king's daughter presents her priceless jewel to the Buddha; frontispiece of a 12th-century Lotus Sutra handscroll in the "Heike Nokyo". [3] Longnü is depicted in the 12th Chapter of the Lotus Sūtra (Skt. Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra) as being full of wisdom and achieving instant enlightenment.
Ryūjin (龍神, lit. ' Dragon God '), which in some traditions is equivalent to Ōwatatsumi, was the tutelary deity of the sea in Japanese mythology.In many versions Ryūjin had the ability to transform into a human shape.
Ao Run (敖闰) or Ao Ji (敖吉), is the Dragon King of the West Sea (西海龙王, Xīhǎi Lóngwáng) and one of the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas in Chinese religion and Korean mythology. [1] As an important belief in Chinese folk religion, Four Dragon King Temples are built around the place to worship the Dragon Kings. [2]