"The dragon is the Great Mystery itself. Hidden in the caverns of inaccessible mountains, or coiled in the unfathomable depths of the sea, it awaits the hours when it shall slowly put itself in motion. It spreads out its coils in the clouds of the tempest, and washes its mane in the darkness of foam-crested whirlpools. Its claws are the prongs of the lightning; its scales gleam in the bark of rain-swept pine trees. Its voice is heard in the hurricane which sweeps away the dead leaves of the forest and quickens a new spring."
-- Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913)
Sea dragon by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
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