Graded reading · Lesson 23 · N3

A folk tale retold: the box Urashima Taro never opened

乙姫おとひめとの約束やくそくを破やぶるわけにはいかない。

Urashima Taro saves a turtle and returns from the sea palace to find 300 years gone, but here he never opens the box. 「〜たとたん」, 「〜わけにはいかない」.

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  1. 01The text
  2. 02Vocabulary
  3. 03Key sentences
  4. 04Culture note

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