shōjō

A kindly creature from Japanese mythology that lives on the bottom of the sea. The shōjō have red hair and a pink or red skin and are naked but for a skirt of green seaweed. They brew a medicinal white wine called shiroi sake and other medicines. If a good persons drinks the sake, it will taste delicious. If a wicked person drinks it, the sake will poison him, unless he repents at once.

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