thumb|350px|Agatamori battling mizuchi in the pool. From Zenken kojitsu (1878) The is a type of Japanese dragon or legendary serpent-like creature, either found in an aquatic habitat or otherwise connected to water. Some commentators perceived it to have been a water deity. It is described in the Nihon Shoki and one ''Man'yōshū'' poem.
thumb|350px|Agatamori battling mizuchi in the pool. From Zenken kojitsu (1878) The is a type of Japanese dragon or legendary serpent-like creature, either found in an aquatic habitat or otherwise connected to water. Some commentators perceived it to have been a water deity. It is described in the Nihon Shoki and one ''Man'yōshū poem.
== Etymology == In olden times pronounced mi-tsu-chi, the word can be broken down to mi "water" + tsu a particle meaning "of" + chi "spirit". The -chi is glossed as a word root used only as a part of a compound word (as a suffix, etc.)
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).