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A stylised dried Enjuin-type ningyo with small pointed teeth, both hands raised beside its face and a curled fish body in a shadowed storage box; an editorial interpretation of a manufactured artefact, with sculpted rib-like folds rather than an exposed human skeleton

Mystery of the Enjuin Mermaid

A Japanese temple’s mermaid mummy was said to have been caught in the eighteenth century, until scientific tests exposed the secret behind its uncanny body.

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Mystery of the Enjuin Mermaid

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