[HN Gopher] Utsuro-Bune
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Utsuro-Bune
Author : ekianjo
Score : 93 points
Date : 2021-04-29 11:51 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| sgt101 wrote:
| I love the thing about "and then the fishermen returned her and
| her boat to the ocean"... That's pretty mean of them!
| trhway wrote:
| my understanding that during time of shogun the foreigners were
| just executed, so it is kind of merciful to just let go.
| krapp wrote:
| As far as I know, that was only for one specific period in
| time (the Sakoku period[0].)
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| [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku
| NiceWayToDoIT wrote:
| Hmmmm "probably time traveling alien from the hollow earth", :P
| alfl wrote:
| I'm not saying it was aliens... but it was aliens. /s
| meepmorp wrote:
| True in a sense, if the woman in the boat wasn't from Japan.
| reportgunner wrote:
| > _...The woman had red hair and eyebrows,..._
|
| Was it Leelo Dallas ?
| erk__ wrote:
| Sounds a bit like the legend of King Skjoldr, who was a Danish
| King who came to the shore as a small child in a boat with no
| other on it on a shild (hence the name.)
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skj%C3%B6ldr
| klyrs wrote:
| Like Moses, too. Bit of a theme going here. Only, she was an
| adult already; it's curious that she was presumed royalty like
| the other two. Perhaps she started her journey as a baby, like
| Skjoldr and Moses, but people just kept putting a little food
| in and sending her on her way.
| bemmu wrote:
| Also Momotaro
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momotar%C5%8D#Story
| JasonFruit wrote:
| I wonder if a corrach might explain the description. I've never
| seen one that was circular, but many have a broader beam than
| many boats, and an Irish woman would account for the red hair.
| bennyp101 wrote:
| Always interests me how legends and stories like this are passed
| around, and how much changed since the original, but also what
| /really/ happened for the story to take form.
| fnord77 wrote:
| clearly a circular lifeboat, sent back in time somehow
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| https://i.imgur.com/agjbBsB.png
| asaph wrote:
| Occam's Razor. It was most likely a lost human from a distant
| land, speaking another language, traveling in an exotic looking
| vessel. This is a simpler explanation than invoking
| extraterrestrial life.
| snypher wrote:
| If we define 'alien' as humanoid traveler from distant land,
| foreign language and exotic vehicle, then we're most of the way
| there :)
| Swizec wrote:
| My US visa says "alien" so "visitor from distant land
| speaking an odd language" sounds about right
|
| -\\_(tsu)_/-
| benbreen wrote:
| Very much agree that the UFO thing is a red herring. But
| perhaps Occam's Razor actually points to an even simpler
| explanation, that of it being a reoccurring mythological trope
| that was repackaged as an historical event.
|
| That said, I would love if it actually were the case that a
| mysterious woman from, say, the Dutch East Indies -- to make up
| a random, semi-plausible example -- really did wash ashore in a
| Japanese fishing village. Sounds like a sequel to "The Thousand
| Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" (awesome book by the way).
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