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Location:
Ukisima, Japan, Asia
Description:
O Goncho or O-gon-cho, is
a Japanese white dragon which lives in a deep pool, called Ukisima. Ukisima
is near Kyoto, at a place called Yama-shiro. Every fifty years the dragon changes
into a golden bird. The cry of the bird is an omen of famine.
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