Lost Fish Hook - Lost Fish Hook

Japanese: 失われた釣針 - うしなわれたつりばり
Lost Fish Hook - Lost Fish Hook

...The folk tale "The Dragon Girl of Lake Dongting" from the inland marshlands of China is very similar to the Urashima-zi tale. The main motif of the famous "Seafood and Mountain Food Exchange Tale" in the Kamiyo-maki of the Kojiki and Nihonshoki is the so-called "Lost Fish Hook" type of tale, which is widely distributed from Indonesia to western Micronesia, and a variant of it is also found among the people of the inland waters of China. These similarities may be related to the migration of peoples in inland China.

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Lost Fishhook" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…中国内陸湖沼地帯での民話〈洞庭湖の竜女〉は,浦嶼子説話ときわめて似ている。また,記紀の神代巻にある有名な〈海幸・山幸〉の交換説話の主要モティーフは,いわゆる〈失われた釣針〉型の話で,この類話はインドネシアから西部ミクロネシアにかけて濃厚な分布を示し,その変型は中国内陸水界民の間にもみられる。これらの類似は,中国内陸部の民族移動と関係があるかもしれない。…

※「失われた釣針」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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