Japanese legends, Davis retelling
Three Thousand Worlds
Davis introduces Shikaiya Wasobioye as a learned man of Nagasaki whose unusual journey carries him away from familiar society. His voyage to the Three Thousand Worlds includes an immortal island and lands defined by plenty, shams, paradoxes and other extraordinary conditions.
Also known as Shikaiya Wasobioye’s Voyage
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Account in the source
LiteraryDavis introduces Shikaiya Wasobioye as a learned man of Nagasaki whose unusual journey carries him away from familiar society.
Further detail
LiteraryHis voyage to the Three Thousand Worlds includes an immortal island and lands defined by plenty, shams, paradoxes and other extraordinary conditions.
Context & interpretation
The entry concerns Davis’s literary voyage, adapted through Chamberlain, rather than a map of canonical Buddhist cosmology. The title is kept in its particular narrative context. Named lands and travel durations are features of the fantastic account, not verified places or routes.
Original passages
Source 1
Myths and Legends of Japan
Shikaiya WasobioyeOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Davis, Myths & Legends of Japan, active reader leaf 405
Checked against the active prepared edition; reader leaf and original-page mapping verified, spacing normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0052-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0052-E001-P0405
- Original scan leaf
- 440
- Recorded leaf number
- 440
- Current Reader position
- 404
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
Source 2
Myths and Legends of Japan
he started upon a journey to the Three Thousand WorldsOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Davis, Myths & Legends of Japan, active reader leaf 406
Checked against the active prepared edition; reader leaf and original-page mapping verified, spacing normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0052-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0052-E001-P0406
- Original scan leaf
- 441
- Recorded leaf number
- 441
- Current Reader position
- 405
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed