Ningen (folklore)

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Ningen

Artist’s impression of the Ningen
Country	Antarctica
Region	Subantarctic, Antarctica

In modern Japanese folklore, the Ningen (ニンゲン) is an aquatic humanoid creature reported to inhabit the subantarctic oceans. The homophone in Japanese 人間 (nin-gen) means "human". It is commonly considered to be a cryptid, a mysterious animal whose existence or survival is disputed or unsubstantiated.^[1]

History[]

The legend surrounding the Ningen began on a forum post on the Japanese online forum website, 2Channel, which claims that the members of a whale research ship witnessed the creature as it surfaced near their ship off the Antarctic coast.^[2]

Description[]

The ningen is described as a whale creature, but has anatomical similarities to humans. The creature has a face, and in some stories it is said to have extremely large limbs and/or arms and hands, about 20–30 meters long. The pigmentation of the creature is said to be pale white.^[3]

Further reading[]

• Greenland, Felicity; Hayward, Philip (2020-09-23). "NINGEN: The generation of media-lore concerning a giant, sub-Antarctic, aquatic humanoid and its relation to Japanese whaling activity" (pdf). Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures. 14 (1): 133–151. doi:10.21463/shima.14.1.10. ISSN 1834-6057.

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