Japanese mermaid

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this, but I think the mermaid at the Enjuin Temple (Alien Zoo, FT417:22) looks almost exactly like the one in the British Museum. I wonder if they were made by the same person. For more information see “The Feejee mermaid & other Essays” in Natural & Unnatural History by Jan Bondeson.

Clive Watson

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