It is known that the etymology of "Rival" is "Brook (rivus)" of Latin. The original mean is "Person who fights over the river water". It might be a pledge how water was valuable from old times.
The blessed rain is called "Welcome rain" and "Rain of pleasure". However, the heaven sometimes loses balance.
〈If it rains too much by time, it becomes people's griefs. Please stop rain! Eight King Dragon! 〉
It is a poem that a young Mr.Minamoto Sanetomo , the Kamakura Shogunate, prayed to Buddah in the summer of 1211 when the damage of the heavy rain continued. And, the misfortune was repeated this year when 800 years were passed.
In an unprecedented downpour of Niigata and Fukushima, the evacuation directive and the recommendation went out to 400,000 one person. The river became a muddy stream, rampaged, and there were the dead.
It is as before that person's mind doesn't extend to the heaven in old times though the forecasting technique has advanced.
It is rainy much and twice the global average rain in Japan. However, a lot of the rain is brought in the rainy season and the typhoon. And, damage occurs somewhere every year.
On the other hand, there is the earth of a serious drought if the world is looked about. It is said that 3.7 million people are the starvation states in Somalia in Africa. The child who becomes thin small is miserable. It is not possible to go with the rope binding the clouds though I want to give the cloud of the shower.
Eight King Dragon of the poem means the god who rules water and rain. Heavy rain falls locally in the earth made clement now. I hear tending to the extension of the region where it doesn't rain moreover. It is necessary to note the climatic variation. It is "Day of water" today.