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Japanese dragon

serpentine creature in Japanese mythology
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Japanese dragon
Katsushika Hokusai · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Japanese dragon

Summary

Japanese dragon is a water deity[1]. They ranks in the top 10% of water_deity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (613 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Japanese dragon's religion is recorded as Japanese mythology[3].
  • Japanese dragon's image is recorded as Hokusai Dragon.jpg[4].
  • Japanese dragon's image is recorded as Heian-jingû Shintô Shrine - Stone statue of Azure Dragon (Sôryû).jpg[5].
  • Japanese dragon's instance of is recorded as water deity[6].
  • Japanese dragon's instance of is recorded as mythical creature[7].
  • Japanese dragon's subclass of is recorded as dragon[8].
  • Japanese dragon's Commons category is recorded as Japanese dragons[9].
  • Japanese dragon's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07z2t4[10].
  • Japanese dragon's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Japanese dragons[11].
  • Japanese dragon's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '竜'}[12].

Body

Personal Life

Japanese dragon's religion is recorded as Japanese mythology[3].

Why It Matters

Japanese dragon ranks in the top 10% of water_deity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (613 views/month).[2] They has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] They is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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