IT'S BELIEVED THAT THE DRAGON SYMBOLISES THE PERFECT MIX OF GOOD AND EVIL. IN JAPANESE CULTURE THE DRAGON HAS BEEN PART OF THE CULTURAL MYTHOLOGY FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, BRINGING PEACE AND PROSPERITY, BECAUSE TIGERS ARE NOT NATIVE TO JAPAN, JAPANESE ARTISTS CREATED THEM AS COURAGEOUS AND POWERFUL SPIRITS FROM THEIR IMAGINATIONS, WHICH MADE DEPICTIONS OF THEM VERY PRIZED AND SOUGHT AFTER.
