Mount Penglai
mystical land in Chinese mythology
| Mount Penglai | |||||||||||||||||
.svg) "Penglai" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters | |||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 蓬萊仙島 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 蓬莱仙岛 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 蓬莱 | ||||||||||||||||
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Penglai (Chinese: 蓬萊仙島; literally: "Penglai Immortal[1] Island") is a place Chinese mythology. In Japanese mythology it is called Hōrai.[2]
Since before the Qin dynasty people said that immortals live there.[3]
In the story of Urashima Tarō Mount Penglai is linked with Tokoyo. In the original Chinese text, Mount Penglai is called Horai, but it's also noted that it should be pronounced as Tokoyo-no-kuni.[4][5]
Related pages
References
- "Horai". Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (digital version @ sacred-texts.com). Retrieved February 22, 2006.
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