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Wasobyoe

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on a business trip, but is blown off course by a typhoon. He is shipwrecked in the Land of Perennial Youth, where he lives for 200 years, and he subsequently visits a number of other fictitious countries, including the Land of Idlers, the Land of Shams, the Land of Ancient Customes, the Land of
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equivalents, and Chamberlain suggested that its parable-like structure was intended to replicate the style of the
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The name Wasōbyōe (also the name of the story's protagonist) is derived from that of
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being a Japanese form of Zhuang Zhou's family name. The story promotes
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In the tale, the titular Wasōbyōe sets out by boat from his native
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was popular in its day, and spawned at least two sequels,
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Index

Basil Hall Chamberlain
Japanese
Utopian fiction
Japan
utopian fiction
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Basil Hall Chamberlain
Zhuang Zhou
Taoist
Confucian
Zhuangzi
Nagasaki
Santō Kyōden
Takizawa Bakin
Basil Hall Chamberlain: Portrait of a Japanologist
ISBN
978-1-136-63867-1



"Japanese in Search of Happiness: A Survey of the Utopian Tradition in Japan"
Aware of Utopia
ISBN
978-0-252-00168-0
Dan jiang ping lun
"Parody Genre in Edo Period Literature"
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