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is a rain-god dragon in Japanese mythology. According to Japanese Buddhist tradition, the priest Kūkai made Zennyo Ryūō appear in 824 CE during a famous rainmaking contest at the Kyoto Imperial Palace. ==Name== The dragon name Zennyo Ryūō is written with Japanese ''zen'' 善 "good, goodness; virtuous", ''nyo'' 女 "woman; female" or ''nyo'' 如 "like; as if; be like; thus" (differentiated with the "mouth radical" 口), and ''ryūō'' 龍王 or 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 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 terminology, ''nyo'' 如 "like; thus" is used to translate Sanskrit words like ''nyorai'' 如来 "thus come" for tathāgata. Compare ''shinzennyo'' 近善女 "near goodness female" translating ''upāsikā'' "female disciple; female devotee". Zennyo 善如 was also the name of a Jodo Shinshu priest (1333-1389 CE) who was a grandson of Kakunyo and the fourth chief priest of the Hongan-ji. Some legends give the name of Zennyo as Zentatsu 善達 "goodness penetration" with ''tatsu'' 達 "penetrate; arrive at; reach; realize" instead of ''nyo''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zennyo Ryūō」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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