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Chap. 2 A View toward the Legend
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This surprised the dragon and when he looked up in the sky, there appeared a Tennyo, breaking through the clouds. This Tennyo was an incarnation of the goddess Benten.
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The dragon with 5 heads, attracted by the beauty of the Tennyo, asked her to marry him. However, she rejected his offer until he stopped his evil deeds.
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After the dragon thought hard, he decided to follow her words and promised that he would stop his evil deeds.
How clever. She did a great job reforming this dragon.
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After the dragon was with the Tennyo for a while, he again promised her that he would stop his evil deeds and left Enoshima and became a mountain. It is written that the name of the mountain is Mt. Ryuko.
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The history scroll also talks about the many miracle workings of the goddess Benten and finishes where the Shogun thought as Minamoto no Sanetomo built a new shrine pavilion.
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So, you see, the Tennyo was the goddess Benten.
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Happi Benzaiten(Possession of Iwamotoro)
In the Iwamotoro, another goddess Benten remains.
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Like the sculpture in the Enoshima Shrine, her figure of the syncretism with the Ugashin (or a god with a body of a snake) introduces the imagery of the medieval periods, as she holds a sacred gem in her hands.
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Based on this legend, a new tourist site has been created.
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Lover's hill(the bell representing the dragon's love)
It is the lovers' hill located in the southern area of this Iwaya road.With the cooperation of people making a commitment as they hope for eternal love, the Fujisawa City Tourist Association completed this bell representing the dragon's love in 1996.
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It is wonderful that legends are passed down in this manner. Enoshima is definitely an island of Tennyo, filled with romanticism.
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the former panoramic tower
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The new panoramic tower
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By the way, what happened to the dragon afterwards? Let's look for him as we climb the panoramic tower, which is the symbol of Enoshima.
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From the panoramic tower, you can get a 360-degree view of the wide ocean and the sky.
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