Editing Urashima Tarō (section)

==Localizations==

=== Yokohama ===
[[Image:Keiunji -03.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.7|Keiun-ji, the stele that reads "Ryūgū denrai Urashima Kanzeon Urashima-tera", which used to be at Kampuku-ji.<ref name=kenkyukai1928/>]]
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[[Basil Hall Chamberlain]] (1880) indicated the presence of a temple dedicated to Urashima at [[Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama]], which housed several relics such as Urashima's fishing-line, and the casket (tamatebako).<ref name=manyo-chamberlain/> But when [[Ernest Satow]] went there with Chamberlain on 2 May 1880, there was nothing left to see except the statue of [[Guanyin|Kannon]] (Kanzeon), the [[bodhisattva]] of mercy.<ref name=satow/>
[[File:Urashima-Kannon_Pavilion.jpg|thumb|Statues of Kannon, Urashima Tarō and Otohime enshrined at Keiun-ji, Yokohama.]]
Neither recorded the name to the temple, but Japanese sources write that the so-called Urashima-dera (Urashima Temple) used to be {{nihongo||観福寺|Kanpuku-ji}}, until it burned down in 1868,{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|One source says this was still during Keiō 4 in (1868)<ref name=inoue_osamu/> another wrote "27th day of 1st month of Meiji 1"<ref name=kenkyukai1928/> Japan decided that dates in Keio 4, be retroactively rewritten as dates in Meiji 1.}} and the temple, including the Kannon goddess statue got translated to {{nihongo||慶運寺|Keiun-ji}} in 1872.<ref name=inoue_osamu/><ref name=hayashi-kampukuji/>

The old Urashima-dera sat on a mountain top. There is a circulating pamphlet which shows the view of the harbor from this vantage point, depicting the fleet of [[Black Ships]] led by [[Matthew C. Perry|Commodore Perry]]'s fleet in 1852–1854.<ref>{{citation|title=Tōkaidō Kanagawa urashima-dera sanjō ni okeru ikokusen hasso chōbō no kei |script-title=ja:東海道神奈川於浦島寺山上異國舩眺望之景 |trans-title=Eight American ships in Yokohama seen from the Urashima Temple |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3g10365/}}</ref>

Local legend also claims native ties to Urashima Tarō, claiming that his father Urashima Tayū was originally from somewhere not far from Yokohama, in [[Miura District, Kanagawa]] in Sagami Province. But the father moved to 
[[Tango Province]]. This legend adds that when Urashima Tarō returned from the Dragon Place, he was guided to seek his parents' grave in "Shirahata, Musashi Province" (in today's Yokohama).

He finally found the grave, thanks to Princess Oto-hime who lit up an illuminating light on a pine branch.{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|A pine named {{nihongo||龍燈の松|Ryūto no matsu|extra='dragon lantern pine'}}, which was this illuminated pine according to legend, stood until it was cut down when the railway opened.<ref name=kenkyukai1928/>}} Tarō built a hut to live here, housing the goddess statue from the Dragon Palace. The hut later became Kampuku-ji temple.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hagisaka |first=Noboru (萩坂昇) |title=Yokohama no minwa |script-title=ja:よこはまの民話|publisher=Musashi no jidō bunka no kai|year=1976 |series=Kanagawa no minwa|pages=97–103}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kojima |first=Yoshiyuki (小島瓔礼)|author-link=<!--ja:小島瓔礼-->|title=Busō mukashi banashi shu: Kanagawa |script-title=ja:武相昔話集: 神奈川|publisher=Iwasaki Bijutsusha<!--岩崎美術社--> |year=1981|page=71}}</ref>

=== Okinawa ===
[[Basil Hall Chamberlain|Chamberlain]] noted the theory that the Dragon Palace might be a romanticized notion of Okinawa, since "[[Ryūgū-jo|Ryūgū]]" (Dragon Palace) and [[Ryūkyū Islands|Ryūkyū]] (Okinawa) are near [[homophone]]s.<ref name=manyo-chamberlain/>

Recorded in {{nihongo||[[:ja:遺老説伝|遺老説伝]]|Irō setsuden|extra="Accounts Left by Old Men"}} of the 18th century, Tale 103 "A person of Yonaha village visits the Dragon Palace"<!--「与那覇村の人竜宮に遊ぶこと」--> is considered analogous to Urashima Tarō.<ref name=yanagita-okinawa/><ref name="urano&fukatsu"/><ref name=kurata/> In it, a certain man of Yonaha village in [[Haebaru, Okinawa|Haebaru]] finds a lock of black hair and returns it to a beautiful maiden. She leads him to the Dragon Palace. Three months pass and the man wishes to return, but the goddess reveals 33 generations have already passed in his absence. The man receives a folded-up piece of paper he is forbidden from unwrapping, but he opens this packet and a piece of white hair clings to him, turning him into an old man, and he dies. He was enshrined at the place which was named Usani-daki, because the man had "sat and reposed" ({{lang|ja-Latn|usani}}) in his despair.<ref name="urano&fukatsu"/><ref name="taira"/>

Similar tales are found on [[Miyako-jima]] and other places.{{sfnp|Yanagita|1971|p=50}} [[Kunio Yanagita|Yanagita Kunio]] felt that the notion of the Dragon Palace shared its origin with the concept of Niruya ({{illm|Niraikanai|ja|ニライカナイ}}) in the southerly islands of Japan.<ref name=yanagita-okinawa2/>

{{lang|ja-Latn|Irō setsuden}} also records a similar tale, number 42, about {{nihongo||善縄大屋子|Yoshinawa Fuyako}}, which describes a man who, bidden by a mysterious woman appeared before him, carried a large turtle to his home, which bit and gave him a terrible wound so that he was buried. But he turned out not to have died a mortals death, and lived on.<ref name=taira/><ref name=yanagita-okinawa2/>

=== Kiso, Nagano ===
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[[File:Kuniyoshi Station 38.jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Utagawa Kuniyoshi]], {{lang|ja-Latn|[[Fukushima-juku]]}} (one of the [[69 Stations of the Nakasendō|69 stations]] of the [[Kiso-kaidō]]).<!--、『[[中山道六十九次|木曾街道六十九次]]』。-->]]

Local legend has it that Urashima Tarō once dwelled in the mountains of Kiso, [[Nagano Prefecture|Nagano]]. This legend originated in near-modern times, from the late [[Muromachi period|Muromachi]] to [[Edo period]]s.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wilson |first=William Scott |title=Walking the Kiso Road: A Modern-Day Exploration of Old Japan |publisher=Shambhala Publications |year=2015  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=454DCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA135 |pages=135–141|isbn=9780834803176 }}</ref><ref name=torii/>

Although a contrived piece of fiction, the old-style ''[[Jōruri (music)|jōruri]]'' {{nihongo||『浦嶋太郎』|Urashima Tarō}} situates its story in the vicinity of this local legend, namely [[Agematsu, Nagano|Agematsu-juku]].{{efn|Agematsu-juku is actually adjacent to Fukushima-juku of Kuniyoshi's [[ukiyo-e]] painting.}} Urashima Tarō appears here as a child born after a local couple prays to [[Togakushi Shrine|Togakushi]] [[Myōjin]]. He and Tamayori-hime fall in love. She is very much a mortal, but after she commits suicide in Ina River (tributary of [[Kiso River]]), she becomes transformed into a supernatural being serving the Dragon Palace. A scale cloak lets her transform into a turtle, in which guise, she is reunited with Urashima Tarō who is fishing in Ina River. Note the "catching of the turtle" scene is transposed from ocean to a river in the mountains.<ref name=torii>{{citation|last=Torii |first=Fumiko (島居フミ子) |title=Kiso ni yomigaetta Urashima Tarō |script-title=ja:木曾に蘇った浦島太郎 |trans-title=Urashima Tarō revived in Kiso |journal=Nihon Bungaku<!--日本文學--> |year=1992 |url=http://opac.library.twcu.ac.jp/opac/repository/1/4944/KJ00005527571.pdf |pages=32–43|language=ja}}</ref>