Samebito
鮫人(さめびと)
In a story Lafcadio Hearn published in English in 1900, a man on the Long Bridge of Seta shelters a creature banished from the Dragon Palace — and is repaid in tears that harden into jewels, which only come when the grief behind them is real.
- 1900
Long Bridge of Seta, Lake Biwa
Legend or tale
Hearn: the exile from the Dragon Palace whose tears became rubies


