Talk:Kakeromajima
Latest comment: 11 years ago by WhisperToMe in topic Cultural info on the island
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Cultural info on the island
editI found:
- Seki, Keigo. Folktales of Japan Volume 7 of Folktales of the World. University of Chicago Press, 1963. p. 63.
- "[...]225-27, appears Motif K1335, "Seduction (or wooing) by stealing clothes of bathing girl (swan maiden)." Kata No. 149, "The Wife from the Upper World. Collected on Kakeroma Island, Oshima-gun, Kagoshima-ken, from Shomu Nobori. The swan maiden motif is world-wide. In literary tradition it appears in The Thousand and One Nights and forms one of the poems of the Old Norse Edda."