Page 18, The Fisher-Boy Urashima
Title
Page 18, 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
So Urashima promised to take great care of the box, and not to open it on any account; and then, getting into his boat, he rowed off, and at last landed on the shore of his own country.
But what happened while he had been away? Where had his father's cottage gone to? What had become of the village where he used to live? The mountains indeed were there as before; but the trees on them had been cut down. The little
But what happened while he had been away? Where had his father's cottage gone to? What had become of the village where he used to live? The mountains indeed were there as before; but the trees on them had been cut down. The little
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Citation
Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938, “Page 18, The Fisher-Boy Urashima,” Linda Lear Center Digital Collections and Exhibitions, accessed April 18, 2024, https://lc-digital.conncoll.edu/items/show/831.