Investigation about the Fish Bridge in Osamu Dazai's "Urashima·san"

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  • 太宰治「浦島さん」の「魚の掛橋」に関する考察
  • ダザイ オサム 「 ウラトウ サン 」 ノ 「 サカナ ノ カケハシ 」 ニ カンスル コウサツ

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In the story "Urashima·san'', a story of travel to a wonderland that appears in his collection of fairy tales titled Otogizoshi, Osamu Dazai uses his imagination to create a unique image of the underwater Dragon Palace. As part of the wonderful landscape of the Palace, a Fish Bridge appears made out of a line of numerous large and small fishes on which they let the protagonist go. This paper aims to investigate from where the writer got the fantastic idea of fish coming together to form a bridge for the protagonist to walk on. I conclude that the Fish Bridge was conceived based on the bridge made of a flock of magpies that appears in the Chinese Qixi (Tanabata) legend.

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  • Comparatio

    Comparatio 22 37-46, 2018-12-28

    Society of Comparative Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University

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