Zennyo Ryūō
is a rain-god Japanese dragon, dragon in Japanese mythology. According to Japanese Buddhist tradition, the priest Kūkai made Zennyo Ryūō appear in 824 AD during a famous rainmaking contest at the Kyoto Imperial Palace. Name The dragon name Zennyo Ryūō is written with Japanese language, Japanese ''zen'' Wikt:善, 善 "good, goodness; virtuous", ''nyo'' Wikt:女, 女 "woman; female" or ''nyo'' Wikt:如, 如 "like; as if; be like; thus" (differentiated with the "mouth radical" Wikt:口, 口), and ''ryūō'' Wikt:龍王, 龍王 or Wikt:竜王, 竜王 "dragon king". Zennyo is a common theme in Japanese art, usually depicted as a small dragon but sometimes as a human, either male or female, with a dragon's tail. The "female" representations could explain this Variant Chinese character, variant character 女 (Visser 1913:162). Fowler (1997:155) cites Nishida Nagao 西田長男 that this 女 "woman" in Zennyo was an error for the original character 如. In Japanese Buddhist terminol ...
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