Urashima Tarō
A summary of the Urashima tale from one of the nationalized textbooks () will be given below. The base text used will be "Urashima Tarō" (うらしま太郎), from the 3rd edition of the or "national language reader", a widely familiar textbook used during the 1918–1932 period. An English translation has been provided in Yoshiko Holmes's thesis.