Talk:Urashima Tarō

message: i think thats the right word.  anyway, i thought all wikis were to drop circumflexes and instead either just use the single letter or letter+u, Like Tarō being Taro or Tarou. most people dont use the circumflex when they search wikipedia which is why i thought it was dropped. --208.71.219.193 (talk) 05:15, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: circumflexes

message: This would be a good reference if I could find anything on it. There was an old Chinese story that translated into "The Flowering Peach Tree" about a man who follows a woman into the mountains & lives there for what he feels is a short time, but he gets lonely for his family & leaves & his wife (the lady he followed) told him he could never return because that place could only be found once. He returns home to discover his friends & family long dead. I can't remember how it ended.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.122.193 (talk) 23:00, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Related Chinese Story

message: In My Funny Valentine, I believe, Jet told the story to Ed towards the beginning of the episode. In a meta-sense, it symbolized Faye's life. So the Cowboy Bebop mention is accurate, but I have no idea how to cite it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 143.67.168.4 (talk) 17:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cowboy Bebop

message: I always wondered about this story's moral. The story itself is quite disturbing to me. Maybe I needed to have been born Asian or something to understand it. It simply makes no sense.
In a simple break-down of a story, a young man saves a turtle that was being picked on. For his benevolence he is lured into a magical kingdom where time passes. Furthermore, he receives a box he was never to open. (Can we say the forbidden fruit of Eden?) And when he does, (If the princess didn't want the box to be opened, why give it to Urashima Taro? You might say it was a "test" of some sort, but is this a way to reward the person who saved you?), he turns into an old man.
The Japanese people I talk to say that Urashima Taro shouldn't have opened the box. He shouldn't have gone to the magical palace. (That a large turtle told him to?) Urashima Taro was greedy. (Was it his greed and selfishness that caused him to save the turtle?)
So in the end, what is the moral if this story? "Never save turtles that are being picked on?" "Saving turtles and then taking the rewards they give you makes you greedy? And thus you will deserve to be turned into an old man and never see your parents again?"
Perhaps I'm missing something...
Kogejoe (talk) 01:53, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Moral

message: I noticed Clannad in the list of references/adaptations of this fable, but I'm unsure as to how it's similar to it. Please explain, if you understand why.--Axyraandas (talk) 20:51, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clannad? 

message: I am unable to confirm the bit of detail that Urashima was magically given a (pair of) gills while being submerged (), except in a retold version (in Mayo, Margaret and Jane Ray, The Orchard Book of Magical Tales, p. 29, 33, etc. cited and summarized in Wallace, Mark, Fukushima). So I am going to remove it. This is not a feature in any of the widely known versions anyway.
It will be replaced by the detail that Urashima "grew gills and leaped into the sea" in an alternate ending, given in Sherman, Howard J,  World Folklore for Storytellers, p. 216, and since it cites anthologies by Dorson and by Seki who are known folklorists. I have not been able to identify this version though. --Kiyoweap (talk) 10:04, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  gills 

message: The :File:Kuniyoshi Station 38.jpg image, although people may want to choose as top image for purely aesthetic reasons, I do not think this a good choice.
This is entiled Fukushima-juku along the Kiso path which is in the middle of the mountains nowhere close to sea.
It has to do with local legend around there, not the typical Urashima folktale or legend. --Kiyoweap (talk) 04:35, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Belated update but I moved the image in large size to Nezame no toko#Urashima Tarō legend (i.e., the tale set in the Kiso Mountains), which should be considered a daughter article of Urashima Tarō. I still retain a reduced size image but I placed it in the Urashima Tarō#Kiso, Nagano section. --Kiyoweap (talk) 10:01, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top Image 

message: What's different on this short story that makes it a fairy tale instead of a legend??, the similar chinese story "Ranka" is refered to as a legend (published in a book called Tales of the strange mind you). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranka_(legend)
Wonder if it started as a legend and became mostly an explicit fairy tale by the edo period or so. Mirad1000 (talk) 19:26, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fairy Tale or Legend?