The Legend of the Hollow Boat (Utsuro-Bune), and a number of complimentary accounts of it have been archived in a text called the Hyouryuukishuu (Tales of Castaways), which is housed at the Iwase Bunko Library in Japan.25 The legend of the Utsuro-Bune describes an encounter in which a strange saucer-shaped craft washed ashore near the small village of Harashagahama on the coast of Japan
