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[[File:Urashima.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Urashima Tarô, in an 18th-19th c. painting in the style of [[Kawanabe Kyosai|Kawanabe Kyôsai]].]]
*''Japanese'': 浦島太郎 ''(Urashima Tarou)''
Urashima Tarô is a classic Japanese folk tale, which tells of a fisherman who after spending time in the Dragon King's Palace returns to find that hundreds of years have passed.
While the stories of [[Momotaro|Momotarô]], [[Kintaro|Kintarô]], and [[Issun boshi|Issun bôshi]] only became popular in the [[Edo period]], Urashima Tarô is one of the few widely-known Japanese folk tales that actually dates back to earlier eras. It appears in some of the earliest Japanese texts, including the 8th century ''[[Nihon shoki]]'', ''[[Manyoshu|Man'yôshû]]'', and ''Tango no kuni fudoki''.
These earliest versions of the story are more [[Shinto]]-inflected, and end with Tarô and the Dragon Princess being transformed into a crane and a turtle, respectively, and living on forever as Shintô spirits (''myôjin''). Later versions became more strongly reflective of Buddhist themes.
The first mention of the story in English was in an [[1886]] issue of ''Century Illustrated Magazine'', in an article by Kataoka Masayuki entitled "Urashima: A Japanese Rip Van Winkle." Washington Irving's story of Rip van Winkle was then introduced to Japan by [[Mori Ogai|Mori Ôgai]] in [[1899]], in a story entitled ''Shin sekai no Urashima Tarô'' ("Urashima of the New World").
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==References==
*Hayashi Kôhei, talk at Discovering the Japanese Collection at Brigham Young University Symposium, March 25, 2016.
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*''Japanese'': 浦島太郎 ''(Urashima Tarou)''
Urashima Tarô is a classic Japanese folk tale, which tells of a fisherman who after spending time in the Dragon King's Palace returns to find that hundreds of years have passed.
While the stories of [[Momotaro|Momotarô]], [[Kintaro|Kintarô]], and [[Issun boshi|Issun bôshi]] only became popular in the [[Edo period]], Urashima Tarô is one of the few widely-known Japanese folk tales that actually dates back to earlier eras. It appears in some of the earliest Japanese texts, including the 8th century ''[[Nihon shoki]]'', ''[[Manyoshu|Man'yôshû]]'', and ''Tango no kuni fudoki''.
These earliest versions of the story are more [[Shinto]]-inflected, and end with Tarô and the Dragon Princess being transformed into a crane and a turtle, respectively, and living on forever as Shintô spirits (''myôjin''). Later versions became more strongly reflective of Buddhist themes.
The first mention of the story in English was in an [[1886]] issue of ''Century Illustrated Magazine'', in an article by Kataoka Masayuki entitled "Urashima: A Japanese Rip Van Winkle." Washington Irving's story of Rip van Winkle was then introduced to Japan by [[Mori Ogai|Mori Ôgai]] in [[1899]], in a story entitled ''Shin sekai no Urashima Tarô'' ("Urashima of the New World").
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==References==
*Hayashi Kôhei, talk at Discovering the Japanese Collection at Brigham Young University Symposium, March 25, 2016.
[[Category:Folklore]]