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    Ningyo (人魚, "human fish") as the name suggests, is a creature with both human and fish-like features, described in various pieces of Japanese literature...
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  • Rie Tanaka "Ningyo-hime", a 2006 single by Koda Kumi "Ningyo Hime", a 2015 single by Yuko Ando "Ningyo Hime", a 2016 song by Flower "Ningyo Hime", a 2016...
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    Japanese dolls (redirect from Ningyō)
    Japanese dolls (人形, ningyō, lit. 'human form') are one of the traditional Japanese crafts. There are various types of traditional dolls, some representing...
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  • Air Doll (redirect from Kuki Ningyo)
    Doll (空気人形, Kūki Ningyō) is a 2009 Japanese drama film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. It is based on the manga series Kuuki Ningyo by Yoshiie Gōda, which...
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    Bunraku (redirect from Ningyō jōruri)
    Bunraku (文楽) (also known as Ningyō jōruri (人形浄瑠璃)) is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century...
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  • Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo is a Japanese puppet theater company that has been in the family of the founder of the kuruma ningyo style of puppetry since the...
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    "The Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue), sometimes translated in English as "The Little Sea Maid", is a fairy tale written by Danish author Hans...
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    Hinamatsuri (redirect from Hina ningyo)
    carpet–material are used to display a set of ornamental dolls (雛人形, hina-ningyō) representing the Emperor, Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional...
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    Karakuri puppets (からくり人形, karakuri ningyō) are traditional Japanese mechanized puppets or automata, made from the 17th century to the 19th century. The...
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  • Iki doll (redirect from Iki-ningyo)
    The term iki doll (生人形, iki-ningyō) refers to a specific type of Japanese traditional doll. They are life-sized lifelike dolls that were popular in misemono...
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    mini Japanese armor and kabuto (helmets) on Children's Day, called Gogatsu Ningyo (May doll), has its origins in the Kamakura to Muromachi periods (1333–1573)...
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    Hakata doll (redirect from Hakata ningyo)
    A Hakata doll (博多人形, Hakata ningyō) is a traditional Japanese clay doll, originally from the city of Fukuoka, part of which was previously named Hakata...
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  • Little Princess: Marl Ōkoku no Ningyō Hime 2 (Japanese: リトルプリンセス マール王国の人形姫2, Hepburn: Ritoru Purinsesu Māru Ōkoku no Ningyō Hime Tsū, lit. "Little Princess:...
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  • The Vampire Doll (幽霊屋敷の恐怖 血を吸う人形, Chi o suu ningyo) is a 1970 Japanese horror film directed by Michio Yamamoto. Returning to Tokyo from a six-month business...
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    (1333–1573). From the Edo period (1603–1867), samurai dolls (武者人形, musha ningyo) were displayed in homes, koinobori (carp streamers) were hung in gardens...
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    Awaji Ningyō-Jōruri, a more-than-500-year-old form of traditional puppet theater, or ningyō-jōruri, daily performs several shows in the Awaji Ningyō-Jōruri...
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    the weather. The Japanese equivalent is ningyo (人魚, literally "human-fish"). According to one dictionary, ningyo oftentimes refers to a "half-woman and...
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  • Zone on July 26, 2006. The singles contains the quadruple A-side tracks "Ningyo-Hime", "I'll Be There", "Juicy", and "With Your Smile". All four songs were...
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  • Ushimitsudoki (1957) - Ningyo Sashichi Ningyô Sashichi torimonochô: Hanayome Satsujinma (1957) - Ningyo Sashichi Kanhasshû ken kajin (1958) Ningyô Sashichi torimonochô:...
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  • Mermaid Legend (人魚伝説, Ningyo Densetsu) is a 1984 Japanese film directed by Toshiharu Ikeda. At the 6th Yokohama Film Festival it won three awards. When...
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  • role-playing video games Also known as Marl Ōkoku no Ningyō Hime (Japanese: マール王国の人形姫, Hepburn: Māru-ōkoku no Ningyō-hime, lit. "Puppet Princess of Marl Kingdom")...
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  • purported to inhabit rivers or lakes in certain parts of China. Japanese ningyo (人魚) is also "merfolks" and also applied to various human-like fish recorded...
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  • songwriting and vulnerability, especially highlighted in the album tracks "Ningyo", "Tomodachi", and "Kōya no Ōkami". Miyauchi added that he believed the...
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    period, the word 'shinigami' can be seen in Chikamatsu Monzaemon's works of ningyō jōruri and classical literature that had themes on double suicides. In Hōei...
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    friendship dolls (友情人形, yūjō ningyō), or Japanese ambassador dolls and the American blue-eyed dolls (青い目の人形, aoi me no ningyō), were dolls sent between Japan...
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  • "Can't Sleep, Can't Eat, I'm Sick / Ningyo" is a song by Japanese singer Namie Amuro from her eighth studio album Play (2007). It was released as a single...
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  • (眠れぬ人形のための序曲 I, "Nemurenu Ningyô no Tame no Jokyoku I") Opus 2. "Overture For Sleepless Dolls II" (眠れぬ人形のための序曲 II, "Nemurenu Ningyô no Tame no Jokyoku II")...
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  • 2002, Victor Entertainment. Ningyo Hime Soshite Sekai wa Kyomo Hajimaru -Chii Ver.- Kata Koto no Koi -Chii Ver.- Ningyo Hime (without Rie) Released August...
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    industries included cotton and complex mechanical dolls called karakuri ningyō. Taisho period Mitsubishi Aircraft Company was established in 1920 in Nagoya...
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    category of the prestigious Kodansha Manga Award. Aposimz – Also known as Ningyō no Kuni (人形の国, lit. "Country of Dolls"). Set on an artificial planet where...
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