Isonade
Sign in to savethumb|The isonade as depicted in Takehara Shunsen's Ehon Hyaku Monogatari is an enormous, shark-like sea monster said to live off the coast of Matsuura and other places in Western Japan.
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It sits within the topics Legendary fish, Sea monsters and Water spirits.
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- Instance of
- yōkai
- Part of
- Japanese folklore
- Country
- Japan
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- Ehon Hyaku Monogatari Isonade.jpg
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- Isonade
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- Ehon Hyaku Monogatari
- indigenous to
- Western Japan
- name in kana
- いそなで
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thumb|The isonade as depicted in Takehara Shunsen's Ehon Hyaku Monogatari is an enormous, shark-like sea monster said to live off the coast of Matsuura and other places in Western Japan.
==Description== According to the Ehon Hyaku Monogatari, its body has never been seen, as it is always "hidden beneath the waves, save for its huge tail fin which is covered in small barbs." In theory: It approaches boats stealthily and uses its hooked tail to snare sailors and drag them into the sea, where it devours them. When it appears, fierce winds blow. It may also simply use its tail to capsize boats, or strike the beach with its tail and kill people there.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Isonade” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.