Editing Urashima Tarō (section)

==''Nihon Shoki''==
In the ''[[Nihon Shoki]]'', Urashimako of Mizunoe is mentioned in the entry for Autumn, 7th month the 22nd year of reign of [[Emperor Yūryaku]]. [[William George Aston|Aston]]'s translation assigns this the year 478 A.D. The entry states that Urashimako (child Urashima, child of Urashima, etc.) of Mizunoe while fishing on a boat, caught a turtle which transformed into a woman. They went into the sea, and reached [[Mount Penglai|Mount Hōrai]] (glossed in ''[[kana]]'' as Tokoyo<ref name=poulton/>), where they saw {{nihongo|immortals|仙衆 (ひじり)}}.{{sfnp|Aston|1896|loc='''1''', p. 368}}<ref name=bialock/>

As to the phrase that they go "into the sea" implies, the Mount Hōrai as conceived here may be a submarine island, a suggestion made by Japanese literature professor {{illm|Ōkuma Kiichirō|ja|大久間喜一郎}}.<ref name="okuma"/>