「仙島本與塵世遠，幾人來此憺忘返？」 --節選〈澎湖游草．三月初四舟抵澎湖〉，久保天隨 
日本傳說故事「浦島太郎」，描述漁夫--浦島解救烏龜的報恩故事。他到海底龍宮遊歷數天，回到陸地後卻變成白髮蒼蒼的老人。


“This isle of fair is free from earthly strife, How many come to leave the vulgar life?” --Excerpt from “A Trip to Pescadores” by Kubo Tenzui(くぼ てんずい), 1932.
Urashima Tarō is a Japanese fairy tale.The protagonist was a young fisherman Urashima Tarō, who got rewarded for rescuing a turtle and invited to the Dragon’s Palace beneath the sea for days. After he bid farewell to the friendly dragon princess and went back, everything ashore had changed shockingly. He turned into an old man in the blink of an eye.