Emperor Keikō
Marinus Willem de Visser (1913:136) cites the 713 CE "Bungo Fudoki" 豊後風土記 that "okami" is written 蛇龍 "snake dragon" in a context about legendary Emperor Keikō seeing an "okami" dragon in a well, and concludes, "This and later ideas about Kura-okami show that this divinity is a dragon or snake." Grafton Elliot Smith provides a Trans-cultural diffusionist perspective.