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Tsurara Nyoubou

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Tsurara Nyoubou is a Japanese Yokai monster folklore in Touhoku area, Niigata Prefecture, and Aomori Prefecture.

On a winter day, one single man looked at icicles and thought 'I want a beautiful wife like this icicle'. One day, a beautiful woman knocked the man's door and asked to be his wife.
They became wife and husband, but the wife refused to have bath. husband forced her to have bath, but the wife wouldn't come out for a long time. Husband worried and peeked the bathroom, there was no sign of wife, but just some ices floating on the water.
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Huh, it's almost the Japanese version of the tale of the Snowman, except the "snowman" was this beautiful Lady of Ice. 
A sad story indeed, but the depiction is fantastic. :) (Smile)