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Tuesday 11 January 2022

Jinmenju


The Jinmenju (also called Ninmenju) is a tree of Japanese legend that grows fruits that look like human heads. Treated as a yokai (spirit), and also listed as a cryptid in the plant category. This tree also found in the book "Wakan Sansai Zhu", an illustrated encyclopedia of plants and animals that was published in 1712. 

The jinmenju sprouts childlike human heads called jinmenshi. The fruit is described as round with eyes, ears, nose and mouth. The fruit "laughs" and falls off branches if they become too hysterical with laughter! Farmers planted orchards of such trees and they blossom in spring, and the flowers have smiling human faces. Fruits that look like human heads grow in the autumn and their laughing is heard for miles.  

She Wolf Night team 

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