磯ナデ · Kumano, Mie · 1960
The long-tailed shark that strikes at the shore
What the record says
The isonade is a shark with a long tail that strikes with it at the edge of the rocks. When someone died by the sea, people said the isonade must have stroked them.
Our summary in English of the record as catalogued; the original card is in Japanese.
In our articles
Isonade
磯撫で（いそなで）
In the 1841 Ehon Hyaku Monogatari a shark-like creature of the western sea attacks with its tail — and in Kumano in 1960 the name was still the thing people said when someone died at the shore.