Page 23, The Fisher-Boy Urashima

Title

Page 23, The Fisher-Boy Urashima

Creator

Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938

Source

Private collection, on loan to the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives, Connecticut College

Date

Meiji 19, Month 11, Day 1 (Nov. 1, 1886)

Original Format

Crepe Paper Book

Text

were dead and buried, and even the village had passed away. So Urashima was in a great hurry to get back to his wife, the Dragon Princess beyond the sea. But which was the way? He couldn't find it with no one to show it to him. "Perhaps," thought he "if I open the box which she gave me, I shall be able to find the way." So he disobeyed her orders not to open the box,-or perhaps he forgot them, foolish boy that he was. Anyhow he opened the box; and

Files

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Citation

Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938 , “Page 23, The Fisher-Boy Urashima,” Linda Lear Center Digital Collections and Exhibitions, accessed November 23, 2024, https://lc-digital.conncoll.edu/items/show/796.