Talk:Kakeromajima

Cultural info on the island
I found: WhisperToMe (talk) 06:41, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Seki, Keigo. Folktales of Japan Volume 7 of Folktales of the World. University of Chicago Press, 1963. p. 63.
 * "[...]225-27, appears Motif K1335, "Seduction (or wooing) by stealing clothes of bathing girl (swan maiden)." Kata No. 149, "The Wife from the Upper World. Collected on Kakeroma Island, Oshima-gun, Kagoshima-ken, from Shomu Nobori. The swan maiden motif is world-wide. In literary tradition it appears in The Thousand and One Nights and forms one of the poems of the Old Norse Edda."