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>Yao Bikuni
>One of the most famous folk stories involving ningyo (or rather the flesh of the human-fish), purports that a girl who ate it acquired everlasting youth and longevity, and became the nun Yao Bikuni (八百比丘尼, "eight-hundred (years) Buddhist priestess") or Happyaku Bikuni, living to the age of 800 years.
>Though the oldest written sources of the legend date from the 15th century, one of these sources relate that the Shira bikuni (白比丘尼, "white nun") appeared in Kyoto in the middle of that century (year 1449) at age 800,[e] so that her birth can be back dated to around the mid-7th century, during the Asuka Period.[24]
>In the typical version the girl who ate the ningyo was from Obama, Wakasa Province,[17][25] and as a nun dwelled in a iori [ja] grass hut on the mountain at Kūin-ji [ja] temple in the region.[26] She traveled all over Japan in her life,[23] but then she resolves to end her life in her home country, and sealed herself in a cave where she dwelled or has herself buried alive on the mountain at the temple, and requests a camellia tree be planted at the site as indicator of whether she still remains alive.
>In a version passed down at Obama, Wakasa, the sixteen year old girl eats the ningyo inadvertently, after her father receives the prepared dish as a guest, so that the family is not implicated in knowingly eating the ningyo or butchering it. The Kūin-ji temple history claims the father to have been a rich man named Takahashi, descended from the founder of the province, and when the daughter turned 16, the dragon king appeared in the guise of a white-bearded man and gave her the flesh as a gift. But there are versions known all over Japan, and the father is often identified as a fisherman. The fisherman reeled in the ningyo but discarded it due to its strangeness, but the young daughter had picked it up and eaten it, according to one telling.
This woman should be a Pokemon
>inb4 regional form Primarina
