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Isonade. The isonade as depicted in Takehara Shunsen's Ehon Hyaku Monogatari[1] The Isonade (磯撫で, "beach stroker") is an enormous, shark -like sea monster said to live off the coast of Matsuura and other places in Western Japan. [2]
On April 25, 1977, the Japanese trawler Zuiyō Maru, fishing east of Christchurch, New Zealand, caught a strange, unknown creature in the trawl.The crew was convinced it was an unidentified animal, [4] but despite the potential biological significance of the curious discovery, the captain, Akira Tanaka, decided to dump the carcass into the ocean again so not to risk spoiling the fish caught.
Colorized facsimile [6] – hand-colored woodcut [7] The kraken (/ ˈkrɑːkən /) [8] is a legendary sea monster of enormous size, per its etymology something akin to a cephalopod, said to appear in the sea between Norway and Iceland. It is believed that the legend of the Kraken may have originated from sightings of giant squid, which may grow ...
A map of the Izu Islands, the centre of the Devil's Sea legend. The Devil's Sea (Japanese: 魔 の 海, Hepburn: Ma no Umi), also known as the Devil's triangle, the Dragon's Triangle, the Formosa Triangle and the Pacific Bermuda Triangle, is a region of the Pacific, south of Tokyo. [ 1 ] The Devil's Sea is sometimes considered a paranormal ...
Umibōzu (海坊主, "sea priest") is a giant, black, human-like being and is the figure of a yōkai from Japanese folklore. Other names include Umihōshi (海法師, "sea priest") or Uminyūdō (海入道, "sea priest"). Little is known of the origin of umibōzu but it is a mythical sea-spirit creature and as such has multiple sightings ...
A giant Ainu monster resembling an octopus, which supposedly lurks in Uchiura Bay in Hokkaido. Akubōzu A spirit that lives in the ashes of hearths in Akita Prefecture and Iwate Prefecture and appears when someone plays with the ashes. Akugyo A species of man-eating sea monster that resembles a giant fish, found in the seas near Kibi Province ...
Many skeptics believe that the "Ningen" was actually an iceberg that coincidentally looked like the sea monster. [2] In 2010, the Japanese Enoshima Aquarium published a YouTube video showing the ocean life that they observed. Near the end of the video, a large creature with small eyes and a large, smiling slit-like mouth can be spotted lying on ...
A famous taiko drummer from Kaga, Izutsuya Kanroku, was traveling across the Sea of Japan when his boat suddenly stopped moving. It had sailed over the back of an akugyo and gotten stuck. Kanroku was sure the monster would devour him. With nothing to do but wait for death, he played with all of his remaining energy. He drummed so loud that the ...