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, also Utsuro-fune and Urobune, refers to an unknown object which allegedly washed ashore in 1803 in Hitachi province on the eastern coast of Japan. Accounts of the tale appear in three texts: ''Toen shōsetsu'' (1825), ''Hyōryū kishū'' (1835) and ''Ume-no-chiri'' (1844). According to legend, an attractive young woman arrived on a local beach aboard the "hollow ship". Fishermen brought her inland to investigate further, but the woman was unable to communicate in Japanese. The fishermen then returned her and her vessel to the sea, where it drifted away. Historians, ethnologists and physicists such as Kazuo Tanaka and Yanagita Kunio have evaluated the "legend of the hollow boat" as part of a long-standing tradition within Japanese folklore.〔〔Kunio Yanagita, Fanny Hagin Mayer, Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai: ''The Yanagita Kunio guide to the Japanese folk tale''. Indiana University Press, Bloomington (IN) 1986, ISBN 0-253-36812-X, p. 176–178.〕 Alternately, certain ufologists have claimed that the story represents evidence for a close encounter of the third kind.〔 ==Historical sources== The best-known versions of the legend are found in three texts: * , composed in 1825 by Kyokutei Bakin. The manuscript is today on display at the ''Mukyū-Kai-Toshokan'' at Machida (Tokyo prefecture). * , composed during the Edo period in 1835 by an unknown author. It is today on display at the library of the Tenri University at Tenri in the Nara prefecture. * , composed in 1844 by Nagahashi Matajirō. It is today on display at the private library ''Iwase-Bunko-Toshokan'' (岩瀬文庫図書館) at Nara. Description in all three books bear similarity, thus they seem to have the same historical origins. The book ''Toen shōsetsu'' contains the most detailed version.〔〔〔〔(Official website of the Iwase Bunko Toshokan )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Utsuro-bune」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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