sentences:  Stories of man-carrying kites also occur in Japan, following the introduction of the kite from China around the seventh century AD.In one such story the Japanese thief Ishikawa Goemon (1558–1594) is said to have used a man-lifting kite to allow him to steal the golden scales from a pair of ornamental fish images which were mounted on the top of Nagoya Castle.His men manoeuvered him into the air on a trapeze attached to the tail of a giant kite.