Kibun Daizin; Or, From Shark-Boy to Merchant Prince

by Gensai Murai · 1904

Bunkichi, a poor boy in a Wakayama fishing town, wins the name Shark-Boy by poisoning the man-eating shark that terrorizes the bay. He rides a doomed ship through a storm to Yedo with a cargo of oranges and rises to become the wealthy merchant Kibun Daizin.