Ningyo (人魚, "human fish") as the name suggests, is a creature with both human and fish-like features, described in various pieces of Japanese literature.
Though often translated as "mermaid", the term is technically not gender-specific and may include the "mermen". The literal translation "human-fish" has also been applied.
Ningyo (人魚, "human fish") as the name suggests, is a creature with both human and fish-like features, described in various pieces of Japanese literature...
Japanese dolls (人形, ningyō, lit. 'human form') are one of the traditional Japanese crafts. There are various types of traditional dolls, some representing...
Doll (空気人形, Kūki Ningyō) is a 2009 Japanese drama film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. It is based on the manga series Kuuki Ningyo by Yoshiie Gōda, which...
Bunraku (文楽) (also known as Ningyō jōruri (人形浄瑠璃)) is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century...
carpet–material are used to display a set of ornamental dolls (雛人形, hina-ningyō) representing the Emperor, Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional...
"The Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue), sometimes translated in English as "The Little Sea Maid", is a fairy tale written by Danish author Hans...
A Hakata doll (博多人形, Hakata ningyō) is a traditional Japanese clay doll, originally from the city of Fukuoka, part of which was previously named Hakata...
Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo is a Japanese puppet theater company that has been in the family of the founder of the kuruma ningyo style of puppetry since the...
The term iki doll (生人形, iki-ningyō) refers to a specific type of Japanese traditional doll. They are life-sized lifelike dolls that were popular in misemono...
Karakuri puppets (からくり人形, karakuri ningyō) are traditional Japanese mechanized puppets or automata, made from the 17th century to the 19th century. The...
The Vampire Doll (幽霊屋敷の恐怖 血を吸う人形, Chi o suu ningyo) is a 1970 Japanese horror film directed by Michio Yamamoto. Returning to Tokyo from a six-month business...
the weather. The Japanese equivalent is ningyo (人魚, literally "human-fish"). According to one dictionary, ningyo oftentimes refers to a "half-woman and...
Mermaid Legend (人魚伝説, Ningyo Densetsu) is a 1984 Japanese film directed by Toshiharu Ikeda. At the 6th Yokohama Film Festival it won three awards. When...
Zone on July 26, 2006. The singles contains the quadruple A-side tracks "Ningyo-Hime", "I'll Be There", "Juicy", and "With Your Smile". All four songs were...
(1333–1573). From the Edo period (1603–1867), samurai dolls (武者人形, musha ningyo) were displayed in homes, koinobori (carp streamers) were hung in gardens...
purported to inhabit rivers or lakes in certain parts of China. Japanese ningyo (人魚) is also "merfolks" and also applied to various human-like fish recorded...
period, the word 'shinigami' can be seen in Chikamatsu Monzaemon's works of ningyō jōruri and classical literature that had themes on double suicides. In Hōei...
Awaji Ningyō-Jōruri, a more-than-500-year-old form of traditional puppet theater, or ningyō-jōruri, daily performs several shows in the Awaji Ningyō-Jōruri...
friendship dolls (友情人形, yūjō ningyō), or Japanese ambassador dolls and the American blue-eyed dolls (青い目の人形, aoi me no ningyō), were dolls sent between Japan...
(眠れぬ人形のための序曲 I, "Nemurenu Ningyô no Tame no Jokyoku I") Opus 2. "Overture For Sleepless Dolls II" (眠れぬ人形のための序曲 II, "Nemurenu Ningyô no Tame no Jokyoku II")...
2002, Victor Entertainment. Ningyo Hime Soshite Sekai wa Kyomo Hajimaru -Chii Ver.- Kata Koto no Koi -Chii Ver.- Ningyo Hime (without Rie) Released August...
industries included cotton and complex mechanical dolls called karakuri ningyō. Taisho period Mitsubishi Aircraft Company was established in 1920 in Nagoya...
rituals. This tradition is similar to one in Japan, where fake taxidermy ningyo (similar to Fiji mermaids) were produced and kept in temples. The Jenny...
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