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English: A ningyo (mermaid), aka kairai ("sea lightning") claimed to be caught in "Yomo-no-ura, Hōjō-ga-fuchi, Etchū Province" according to this flier.[1] The correct reading however is "Yokata-ura"[2] in what is now Toyama Bay. Caption title given by Waseda University Theatre Museum which owns a copy.[1] A kawaraban type wood-block printed bulletin. Work is discussed by Hayward,[3] and by Castiglioni;[4] witnessing it brings a person "long and happy life".[5]
日本語: 人魚（一名「海雷（かいらい）」）とみえる。越中国、放生淵四方浦（ほうぜうがふち・よものうら）で捕らえられたとみえるが[6]、正しい読みは「よかたうら」である[7]。同じ画は早稲田大学演劇博物館が所蔵[2]
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Source にくきゅう (2017-05-12). 八百比丘尼の坐像を異例の一般公開－福井県. Retrieved on 2019-08-22.
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  1. ↑ Naramoto, Tatsuya (1981) Kenran taru chōnin bunka no kaika, Ōbunsha, p. 140
  2. ↑ “富山藩(近世)”, in Kadokawa Nihon chimei dai-jiten (kyū-chimei) 角川日本地名大辞典（旧地名）[3], (Please provide a date or year) via JLogos
  3. ↑ Hayward, l (2018) Japan: The 'Mermaidization' of the Ningyo and related folkloric figures, Indiana University Press, pp. 51, 66 ISBN: 978-0861967322.
  4. ↑ Castiglioni, Andrea (2021). "The Human-Fish". Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 48: 34–35.
  5. ↑ Foster, Michael Dylan (2015) The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore, University of California Press ISBN: 978-0-520-95912-5.
  6. ↑ 奈良本辰也 (1981) Kenran taru chōnin bunka no kaika, Ōbunsha, p. 140
  7. ↑ “富山藩(近世)”, in 角川日本地名大辞典（旧地名）[4], (Please provide a date or year) via JLogos

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"Ningyo no zu": A Flier of a Mermaid, dated 5th month of Bunka 2 (1805)

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