Page 22, The Fisher-Boy Urashima
Title
Page 22, 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
It fell to pieces hundreds of years ago." Then it suddenly flashed across Urashima's mind that Sea-God's Palace beyond the waves, with its coral walls and ruby fruits and its dragons with tails of solid gold, must be part of fairy-land, and that one day there was probably as long as a year in this world, so that his three years in the Sea-God's Palace had really been hundreds of years. Of course there was no use in staying at home, now that all his friends
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