「人間は世界で最も優しく心温かい生き物だ」と信じ、娘に陸の上で幸福に暮らしてほしかったため

'The Red Candles and the Mermaid' (Akai Rosoku to Ningyo) is a tragic masterpiece of children's literature written by Mimei Ogawa, known as the Andersen of Japan, during the Taisho period. A mermaid mother living in the cold, dark northern sea believed, 'Humans are the kindest and warmest creatures in the world,' and wishing for her unborn daughter to live happily on land, she gave birth to her in the precincts of a shrine at night.