The sculpture would have been what was called a ridge beast, or an ornamentation placed on the corners and edges of roofs or along the upper ridge, archaeologists said. While dragon iconography ...

HACHIMANTAI, Iwate Prefecture--As the seasons change, the melting snow has revealed the “Hachimantai dragon eye” at Kagaminuma swamp near the top of Mount Hachimantai, which borders Iwate and ...

Most of the time it's pretty ordinary looking, but if you go there at the right time you might be lucky to get a glimpse of a phenomenon which transforms the lake into what looks like a giant eye.

KANAZAWA--The re-creation of a sculpture of two dragons lost in the 2019 blaze that destroyed Shuri-jo castle's Seiden main hall has been boosted with the discovery here of a sketch detailing ...