Dracon japonese
Le dracon japonese (日本の竜 Nihon no ryū) es un creatura legendari del mythologia japonese. Le mythos de dracones japonese misce legendas native con historias de dracones de China, Corea e India. Le stilo del dracon era amplemente influite per le dracon chinese. Como multe altere dracones asiatic, illos de japon son deitates de aqua associate con phenomenos atmospheric e corpores de aqua. Typicmente, illos son representate como longe creaturas con le forma del serpente, sin alas e con ungulas. Le lingua japonese moderne ha numerose parolas pro "dracon", incluínte tatsu del japonese antique ta-tu, le sino-japonese ryū o ryō 竜 que veni del lingua chinese lóng 龍, e nāga ナーガ del sanscrito nāga.

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Bibliographia
Aston, William George, tr. 1896. Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697. 2 vols. Kegan Paul. 1972
Chamberlain, Basil H., tr. 1919. The Kojiki, Records of Ancient Matters.
Gould, Charles. 1896. Mythical Monsters"]. W. H. Allen & Co.
Heinrich, Amy Vladeck. 1997. Currents in Japanese Culture: Translations and Transformations. Columbia University Press.
Ingersoll, Ernest. 1928. "Chapter Nine: The Dragon in Japanese Art", in Dragons and Dragon Lore, Payson & Clarke. Also: Ingersoll, Ernest, et al., (2013). The Illustrated Book of Dragons and Dragon Lore. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN B00D959PJ0
Smith, G. Elliot. 1919. [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/BL313xS648/# The Evolution of the Dragon ''. Longmans, Green & Company.
Visser, Marinus Willern de. 1913. The Dragon in China and Japan . J. Müller;

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