Yokai of Fukui

Records in Fukui

Ningyo

人魚（にんぎょ）

The Japanese ningyo of the old illustrated encyclopedias is not a mermaid — it is a fish body carrying a human face, with no arms and nothing to seduce anyone with. The famous story attached to it is not about romance either.

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undated Obama (Wakasa) Legend or tale
Yao Bikuni ate ningyo flesh and lived eight hundred years

Ugoku Jintai Mokei

動く人体模型（うごくじんたいもけい）

The school science-room anatomy model that moves at night, a Japanese school ghost story recorded from pupils since the 1980s and told again by first-graders in a 2024 Fukui school report.

Other
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2024 Fukui (a university-affiliated school) Modern rumour
First-graders turned talk of the science-room skeleton and anatomy model into a story of models moving at night

Places to visit in Fukui

Kūinji and the Cave of Yao Bikuni 空印寺（八百比丘尼入定洞） Shrine or temple Obama, Fukui — The temple at the edge of Obama's castle town where the nun who ate mermaid flesh and lived eight hundred years entered her cave.

Places to Visit