![Painting of woman standing behind a ceramic Swan and bonsai tree.](https://artchrisdale.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ceramic-swan.webp)
Yamato Takeru a guardian in Buddhist Mountains upon his death turned in to swan. In Chinese mythology, a “fairy” fly towards the sun and glides back, bringing the human world. In folktales, a young man steel’s the swan’s magic feathers robe so that she will not fly away, so he can marry her.