YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore – HIMEUO - Time and Tide - TV | NHK WORLD-JAPAN Live & Programs

In this episode of YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore, we seek out a mermaid-like yokai, the Himeuo. In the early 19th century, it was said to have appeared in the ocean off Nagasaki Prefecture, one of Japan's few locations of foreign trade at the time. It reportedly warned of the outbreak of illness, but guided that...