Some days, it seems like everything’s cuter in Japan. After all, this is the country where some construction crews feel if they have to shut down part of the street, the best barricades are the ones shaped like a procession of purple and pink kimono-wearing princesses . There’s an exception to this rule, though, and it’s mermaids . In the West, they’re portrayed as enchanting beauties of the deep. In Japan, though, they were traditionally treated like yokai , ghostly monsters , as this collection of Japanese mermaid paintings has a few that would be better stars for horror...
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