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Urashima Tarō

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is the protagonist of a Japanese fairy tale (otogi banashi), who in a typical modern version is a fisherman who is rewarded for rescuing a turtle, and carried on its back to the Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) which lies beneath the sea. [1]

146 relations: A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Action-adventure game, Adventure game, Agematsu, Nagano, Amaterasu, Anime, Ape Escape 2, Au (mobile phone company), Ōkami, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Black Ships, Bodleian Library, Case Closed, Choudenshi Bioman, Chuokoron-Shinsha, Clannad (visual novel), Classical Japanese language, Clover Studio, Columbia University, Cowboy Bebop, Crane (bird), Cremation, Digimon Adventure, Disgaea 4, Edo period, Emperor Junna, Emperor Yūryaku, Ernest Mason Satow, Expo '70, Fairy tale, Fisherman, Fudoki, Ghost Sweeper Mikami, Gin Tama, Gravitation (manga), Guanyin, Haebaru, Okinawa, Hainish Cycle, Hasegawa Takejirō, Hawksbill sea turtle, Herla, Hideo Kojima, Hiragana, Homophone, Honi ha-M'agel, Horaisan, Hyades (star cluster), Iara (mythology), Japan Women's University, Japanese Folk Crafts Museum, ..., Jōruri (music), Kakudmi, Kamen Rider Den-O, Kana, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanji, Katakana, Keigo Seki, King in the mountain, Kiso River, Kobayashi Eitaku, Kunio Yanagita, Kyōgen, Kyoto Prefecture, Lafcadio Hearn, List of Real Drive episodes, Love Hina, Man'yōgana, Man'yōshū, Manga, Matthew C. Perry, Maureen Wartski, Meiji period, Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman, Miura District, Kanagawa, Miyako-jima, Mount Penglai, Muromachi period, Myōjin, Nagano Prefecture, Nakatado District, Kagawa, Nara period, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Niamh (mythology), Nihon Shoki, Nine sons of the dragon, Octopus, Oisín, Okami-san and Her Seven Companions, Olive flounder, One Piece, Ono no Takamura, Origami, Osamu Dazai, Oto-hime, Otogi-zōshi, Pagrus major, Pandora's box, Planets of the Hainish Cycle, Pleiades, Policenauts, RahXephon, Ranka (legend), Real Drive, Revati, Rip Van Winkle, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Ryūgū-jō, Ryukyu Islands, Sādhanā, Shūichi Katō (critic), Shinto, Sic, Skies of Arcadia, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Stock character, Takahashi no Mushimaro, Tamatebako, Tang dynasty, Tango Province, Taurus (constellation), Tír na nÓg, The Battle Cats, The Dream of a Summer Day, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Voyage of Bran, Theory of relativity, Time dilation, Togakushi Shrine, Tokoyo, Tortoiseshell, Ukiyo-e, Ultra Q, Urashima Tarō (anime), Ursula K. Le Guin, Urusei Yatsura, Varig, Washington Irving, Watatsumi, William Anderson (collector), William George Aston, Xian (Taoism), Yes! PreCure 5, Yosa District, Kyoto, Yu Yu Hakusho. Expand index (96 more) »

A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

A Fisherman of the Inland Sea is a 1994 collection of short stories and novellas by Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Action-adventure game

The action-adventure video game genre includes video games that combine core elements from the action and adventure genres.

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Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving.

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Agematsu, Nagano

is a town located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

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Amaterasu

,, or is a deity of the Japanese myth cycle and also a major deity of the Shinto religion.

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Anime

Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.

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Ape Escape 2

Ape Escape 2, known as in Japan, is a platform video game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 video game console.

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Au (mobile phone company)

au, or au by KDDI, is a mobile phone brand in Japan marketed by KDDI in the main islands of Japan and Okinawa Cellular in Okinawa.

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Ōkami

is an action-adventure video game developed by Clover Studio and published by Capcom.

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Basil Hall Chamberlain

Basil Hall Chamberlain (18 October 1850 – 15 February 1935) was a professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th century.

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Black Ships

The Black Ships (in 黒船, kurofune, Edo-period term) was the name given to Western vessels arriving in Japan in the 16th and 19th centuries.

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Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe.

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Case Closed

Case Closed, also known as, is an ongoing Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama.

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Choudenshi Bioman

is Toei Company's eighth installment in the Super Sentai series.

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Chuokoron-Shinsha

is a Japanese publisher.

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Clannad (visual novel)

is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key and released on April 28, 2004 for Windows PCs.

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Classical Japanese language

The classical Japanese language (bungo, "literary language"), also called "old writing" (kobun), is the literary form of the Japanese language that was the standard until the early Shōwa period (1926–89).

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Clover Studio

was an independent Japanese video game development studio funded by Capcom.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Cowboy Bebop

is a 1998 Japanese anime television series animated by Sunrise featuring a production team led by director Shinichirō Watanabe, screenwriter Keiko Nobumoto, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, mechanical designer Kimitoshi Yamane, and composer Yoko Kanno.

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Crane (bird)

Cranes are a family, Gruidae, of large, long-legged and long-necked birds in the group Gruiformes.

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Cremation

Cremation is the combustion, vaporization, and oxidation of cadavers to basic chemical compounds, such as gases, ashes and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone.

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Digimon Adventure

, known as the first season of Digimon: Digital Monsters outside Japan, is a Japanese anime television series created by Akiyoshi Hongo and produced by Toei Animation in cooperation with WiZ, Bandai and Fuji Television.

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Disgaea 4

is a 2011 tactical role-playing video game for the PlayStation 3 and the fourth in the Disgaea series by Nippon Ichi Software.

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Edo period

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.

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Emperor Junna

was the 53rd emperor of Japan,Emperor Junna, Ōharano no Nishi no Minenoe Imperial Mausoleum, Imperial Household Agency according to the traditional order of succession.

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Emperor Yūryaku

was the 21st emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō):; retrieved 2013-8-28.

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Ernest Mason Satow

Sir Ernest Mason Satow, (30 June 1843 – 26 August 1929), was a British scholar, diplomat and Japanologist.

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Expo '70

was a world's fair held in Suita, Osaka, Japan, between March 15 and September 13, 1970.

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Fairy tale

A fairy tale, wonder tale, magic tale, or Märchen is folklore genre that takes the form of a short story that typically features entities such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments.

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Fisherman

A fisherman or fisher is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish.

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Fudoki

are ancient reports on provincial culture, geography, and oral tradition presented to the reigning monarchs of Japan, also known as local gazetteers.

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Ghost Sweeper Mikami

is a Japanese comedic horror manga series written and illustrated by Takashi Shiina.

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Gin Tama

, is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hideaki Sorachi and serialized, beginning on December 8, 2003, in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump.

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Gravitation (manga)

is a yaoi manga series written and illustrated by Maki Murakami.

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Guanyin

Guanyin or Guan Yin is an East Asian bodhisattva associated with compassion and venerated by Mahayana Buddhists and followers of Chinese folk religions, also known as the "Goddess of Mercy" in English.

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Haebaru, Okinawa

is a town located in Shimajiri District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Hainish Cycle

The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Hasegawa Takejirō

was an innovative Japanese publisher specializing in books in European languages on Japanese subjects.

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Hawksbill sea turtle

The hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae.

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Herla

Herla or Herla King (Herla Cyning) is a legendary leader of the mythical Germanic Wild Hunt and the name from which the Old French term Herlequin may have been derived.

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Hideo Kojima

is a Japanese video game designer, screenwriter, director, and game producer.

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Hiragana

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases rōmaji (Latin script).

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Homophone

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning.

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Honi ha-M'agel

Honi ha-Me'agel (חוני המעגל Khoni, Choni, or Ḥoni, HaMa'agel; lit. Honi the Circle-drawer) was a Jewish scholar of the 1st-century BC, prior to the age of the tannaim, the scholars from whose teachings the Mishnah was derived.

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Horaisan

Horaisan (蓬莱山), or horaijima (蓬莱島), are terms used to refer to an inaccessible island that generally is part of a Japanese garden, and are often translated as "Treasure Mountain" or "Treasure Island", respectively.

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Hyades (star cluster)

The Hyades (Greek Ὑάδες, also known as Melotte 25 or Collinder 50) is the nearest open cluster and one of the best-studied star clusters.

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Iara (mythology)

Iara, also spelled Uiara or Yara or Mãe das Águas ("mother of the water bodies"), is a figure from Brazilian mythology based on ancient Tupi and Guaraní mythology.

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Japan Women's University

is the oldest and largest of private Japanese women's universities.

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Japanese Folk Crafts Museum

The is a museum in Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, dedicated to the hand-crafted art of ordinary people (mingei).

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Jōruri (music)

is a form of traditional Japanese narrative music in which a sings to the accompaniment of a shamisen.

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Kakudmi

Kakudmi (sometimes also called Kakudmin, or Raivata, son of Revata) was the King of Kusasthali.

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Kamen Rider Den-O

is the seventeenth installment in the popular Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu programs.

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Kana

are syllabic Japanese scripts, a part of the Japanese writing system contrasted with the logographic Chinese characters known in Japan as kanji (漢字).

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Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama

is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Kanji

Kanji (漢字) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system.

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Katakana

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).

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Keigo Seki

was a Japanese folklorist.

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King in the mountain

The King asleep in mountain (D 1960.2 in Stith Thompson's motif index system) is a prominent folklore motif found in many folktales and legends.

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Kiso River

The is a river in Japan roughly 229 km long, flowing through the prefectures of Nagano, Gifu, Aichi, and Mie before emptying into Ise Bay a short distance away from the city of Nagoya.

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Kobayashi Eitaku

Kobayashi Eitaku (小林 永濯, 22 April 1843 – 27 May 1890) was a Japanese artist specializing in ukiyo-e and nihonga.

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Kunio Yanagita

was a Japanese scholar and considered the father of Japanese native folkloristics, or minzokugaku.

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Kyōgen

is a form of traditional Japanese comic theater.

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Kyoto Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan in the Kansai region of the island of Honshu.

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Lafcadio Hearn

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν; 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), known also by the Japanese name, was a writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.

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List of Real Drive episodes

Real Drive is a 2008 anime TV series created by Production I.G and Masamune Shirow (the latter who is known for being the creator of the Ghost in the Shell franchise), produced in collaboration with broadcaster Nippon Television (NTV).

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Love Hina

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu.

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Man'yōgana

is an ancient writing system that employs Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language, and was the first known kana system to be developed as a means to represent the Japanese language phonetically.

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Man'yōshū

The is the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry, compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period.

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Manga

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Matthew C. Perry

Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was a Commodore of the United States Navy who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War (1846–48).

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Maureen Wartski

Maureen Crane Wartski (born Maureen Ann Crane, January 25, 1940 – January 14, 2014) was a naturalized American author She wrote many novels for children and young adults.

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Meiji period

The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman

is a Japanese science fiction manga series written by Hirohisa Soda, illustrated by Noboru Akashi and published by Akita Shoten.

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Miura District, Kanagawa

is a district located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Miyako-jima

is the largest and the most populous island among the Miyako Islands of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Mount Penglai

Penglai is a legendary land of Chinese mythology.

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Muromachi period

The is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573.

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Myōjin

Myōjin (明神 'shining deity', 'illuminating deity', or 'apparent deity') or Daimyōjin (大明神 'great shining/apparent deity') was a title historically applied to Japanese (Shinto) deities (kami) and, by metonymy, their shrines.

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Nagano Prefecture

is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on the island of Honshu.

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Nakatado District, Kagawa

is a district located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Nara period

The of the history of Japan covers the years from AD 710 to 794.

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National Autonomous University of Mexico

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (Spanish: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, - literal translation: Autonomous National University of Mexico, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion

is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax and Tatsunoko Production and directed by Hideaki Anno, and was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 1995 to March 1996.

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Niamh (mythology)

Niamh or Niam, in the Irish Fenian Cycle, is the lover or spouse of Oisín, son of Finn mac Cumhail.

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Nihon Shoki

The, sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history.

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Nine sons of the dragon

The nine sons of the dragon are Chinese dragons who are the mythological sons of the Dragon King.

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Octopus

The octopus (or ~) is a soft-bodied, eight-armed mollusc of the order Octopoda.

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Oisín

Oisín (anglicized often as), Osian, Ossian, or Osheen was regarded in legend as the greatest poet of Ireland, and is a warrior of the fianna in the Ossianic or Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

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Okami-san and Her Seven Companions

The series is a collection of Japanese light novels by Masashi Okita, with illustrations by Unaji.

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Olive flounder

The olive flounder, bastard halibut or Japanese halibut (Paralichthys olivaceus) is a temperate marine species of large-tooth flounder native to the north-western Pacific Ocean.

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One Piece

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda.

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Ono no Takamura

also known as was an early Heian period scholar and poet.

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Origami

) is the art of paper folding, which is often associated with Japanese culture.

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Osamu Dazai

was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan.

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Oto-hime

Oto-hime or Otohime (乙姫), in the Japanese folktale of Urashima Tarō, is the princess of the undersea palace Ryūgū-jō.

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Otogi-zōshi

refers to a group of about 350 Japanese prose narratives written primarily in the Muromachi period (1392–1573).

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Pagrus major

Pagrus major, the red seabream is a fish species in the Sparidae family.

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Pandora's box

Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's Works and Days.

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Planets of the Hainish Cycle

Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle takes place in a science fiction universe that contains a number of planets, some of which have been explored and made part of an interplanetary group called the League of All Worlds and its successor, the Ekumen; others are explored and re-explored by the League and the Ekumen over a time frame spanning centuries.

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Pleiades

The Pleiades (also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45), are an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus.

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Policenauts

is a graphic adventure game with a hard science fiction storyline, written and directed by Hideo Kojima, and published by Konami.

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RahXephon

is an anime series about 17-year-old Ayato Kamina, his ability to control a mecha known as the RahXephon, and his inner journey to find a place in the world.

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Ranka (legend)

Lanke or Lankeshan (爛柯(山), Lànkē(shan), Lan-k'o (Shan); "(The Mountain of) the Rotten Axe Handle" in English), is a Chinese legend which has been compared to that of Rip Van Winkle, although it predates it by at least 1000 years.

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Real Drive

is an anime TV series created by Production I.G and Masamune Shirow (known for the Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed franchises) under the directorship of Kazuhiro Furuhashi, produced in collaboration with broadcaster Nippon Television (NTV).

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Revati

Revati, within Hinduism, is daughter of King Kakudmi and consort of the God Balarama, the elder brother of Krishna.

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Rip Van Winkle

"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819.

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Ruth Plumly Thompson

Ruth Plumly Thompson (27 July 1891 – 6 April 1976) was an American writer of children's stories, best known for writing many novels placed in Oz, the fictional land of L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels.

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Ryūgū-jō

In Japanese folklore, is the undersea palace of Ryūjin, the dragon kami of the sea.

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Ryukyu Islands

The, also known as the or the, are a chain of islands annexed by Japan that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the southernmost.

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Sādhanā

Sādhana (Sanskrit साधन), literally "a means of accomplishing something", is a generic term coming from the yogic tradition and it refers to any spiritual exercise that is aimed at progressing the sādhaka towards the very ultimate expression of his or her life in this reality.

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Shūichi Katō (critic)

was a Japanese critic and author best known for his works on literature and culture.

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Shinto

or kami-no-michi (among other names) is the traditional religion of Japan that focuses on ritual practices to be carried out diligently to establish a connection between present-day Japan and its ancient past.

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Sic

The Latin adverb sic ("thus", "just as"; in full: sic erat scriptum, "thus was it written") inserted after a quoted word or passage indicates that the quoted matter has been transcribed or translated exactly as found in the source text, complete with any erroneous or archaic spelling, surprising assertion, faulty reasoning, or other matter that might otherwise be taken as an error of transcription.

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Skies of Arcadia

Skies of Arcadia is a role-playing video game developed by Overworks for the Dreamcast and published by Sega in 2000.

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Space Pirate Captain Harlock

is a manga series written and illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto.

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Stock character

A stock character is a stereotypical fictional character in a work of art such as a novel, play, or film, whom audiences recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition.

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Takahashi no Mushimaro

was a Japanese poet of the early 8th century.

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Tamatebako

A "jeweled hand box", "jewel box", "jeweled box", "treasure box", "casket", etc., is the name of a mysterious box that in the Japanese folk tale "Urashima Tarō", a parting gift that the fisherman Urashima Tarō receives from mistress of the sea (Otohime), after his stay at the Dragon Palace (or Hōrai), to which he was invited after saving a turtle.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty or the Tang Empire was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

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Tango Province

was an old province in the area that is today northern Kyoto Prefecture facing the Sea of Japan.

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Taurus (constellation)

Taurus (Latin for "the Bull") is one of the constellations of the zodiac, which means it is crossed by the plane of the ecliptic.

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Tír na nÓg

In Irish mythology and folklore, Tír na nÓg ("Land of the Young") or Tír na hÓige ("Land of Youth") is one of the names for the Otherworld, or perhaps for a part of it.

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The Battle Cats

The Battle Cats is a free-to-play strategy tower defense game developed by PONOS for iOS and Android mobile devices which first emerged in Japan under the name Nyanko Daisensou (meaning "The Great Cat War").

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The Dream of a Summer Day

"The Dream of a Summer Day" is an essay by Lafcadio Hearn that reminisced on his childhood, and which also incorporated a retelling of the Japanese folktale of Urashima Tarō.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

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The Voyage of Bran

Immram Brain (maic Febail) (The Voyage of Bran (son of Febail)) is a medieval Irish narrative.

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Theory of relativity

The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity.

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Time dilation

According to the theory of relativity, time dilation is a difference in the elapsed time measured by two observers, either due to a velocity difference relative to each other, or by being differently situated relative to a gravitational field.

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Togakushi Shrine

The is a Shinto shrine in Togakushi, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

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Tokoyo

Tokoyo is a figure in Japanese mythology.

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Tortoiseshell

Tortoiseshell or tortoise shell is a material produced from the shells of the larger species of tortoise and turtle, mainly the hawksbill sea turtle, which is an endangered species largely because of its exploitation for the material.

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Ukiyo-e

Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.

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Ultra Q

is a tokusatsu science fiction/kaiju series made in the tradition of Toho's many tokusatsu sci-fi/horror films.

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Urashima Tarō (anime)

is an animated film produced by Seitaro Kitayama in 1918.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American novelist.

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Urusei Yatsura

is a comedic manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi and serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1978 to 1987.

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Varig

VARIG (acronym for Viação Aérea RIo-Grandense) was the first airline founded in Brazil, in 1927.

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Washington Irving

Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.

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Watatsumi

, also pronounced Wadatsumi, is a legendary kami (神, god; deity; spirit), Japanese dragon and tutelary water deity in Japanese mythology.

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William Anderson (collector)

William Anderson FRCS (18 December 1842 – 27 October 1900) was an English surgeon born in Shoreditch, London.

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William George Aston

William George Aston CMG (9 April 1841 – 22 November 1911) was a British diplomat, author and scholar-expert in the language and history of Japan and Korea.

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Xian (Taoism)

Xian is a Chinese word for an enlightened person, translatable in English as.

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Yes! PreCure 5

is a Japanese anime series and the fourth installment in Izumi Todo's Pretty Cure franchise produced by Toei Animation.

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Yosa District, Kyoto

is a district located in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

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Yu Yu Hakusho

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urashima_Tarō

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