![DRAGON](https://ryugendo.jp/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/rusuitenji-dragon009.jpeg)
Finally The Rusuitenji Rising Dragon finishesd!
![](https://ryugendo.jp/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/rusuitenji-dragon002.jpeg)
This guy had come several times a year by bullet train from Yamaguchi for the weekends.
![Dragon](https://ryugendo.jp/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/rusuitenji-dragon004.jpeg)
Last year, I think it was only two or three times. Then it took three years or more to finish.
![Dragon](https://ryugendo.jp/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/rusuitenji-dragon003.jpeg)
It may seem very long way to go, if you don’t give up you will get it done. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
流水点字 Ru-Sui-Ten-Ji (Put a letter on the flow)
Kukai met a boy when he was walking along a creek. (Kukai was a Japanese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and poet who founded the esoteric Shingon school of Buddhism.)
“Can you write on the flow?”
The boy said and wrote a Kanji character that means dragon on the creek.
Strangely the letter didn’t flow, stayed still on the surface.
![](https://ryugendo.jp/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/rusuitenji-warabe001.jpeg)
When he finished the letter with a final dot it turned into a dragon and flew away with a roaring sound.
![Kukai](https://ryugendo.jp/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/rusuitenji-kukai002.jpeg)
![Dragon](https://ryugendo.jp/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/rusuitenji-dragon005.jpeg)
![](https://ryugendo.jp/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/rusuitenji-dragon006.jpeg)
![Dragon](https://ryugendo.jp/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/rusuitenji-dragon007.jpeg)
![Dragon](https://ryugendo.jp/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/rusuitenji-dragon008.jpeg)
In fact, that boy was an incarnation of Monju-Bosatsu.
![Monju Bosatsu](https://ryugendo.jp/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/rusuitenji-monjubosatsu001.jpeg)
![](https://ryugendo.jp/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/04/rusuitenji-dragon.jpeg)
Tattooist Ryugen
Roppongi Tokyo