Urashima Tarō
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Urashima Tarō is the protagonist of a Japanese fairy tale, who, in a typical modern version, is a fisherman rewarded for rescuing a sea turtle, and carried on its back to the Dragon Palace beneath the
Urashima Tarō and princess of Horai, by Matsuki Heikichi (1899)
Urashima Taro encounters children on the beach who are "toying with" a turtle.―Jinjō shōgaku kokugo tokuhon (the 3rd edition of Kokutei tokuhon) (1928)
Urashima saves the turtle.―From an Otogizōshi picture scroll in the Bodleian Library collection, late 16th or early 17th century.
Mizuenoe no Urashima riding a turtle with flowing tail (mino game). Depiction of him riding a turtle appeared quite late, in the early 18th century. —Ogata Gekkō, Gekkō zuihitsu (1887).
Tamatebako
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A tamatebako "jeweled hand box", "jewel box", "jeweled box", "treasure box", "casket", etc., is a mysterious box that in the Japanese folk tale "Urashima Tarō", is a parting gift that the fisherman Ur
Urashima Tarō
…the princess. But when he returns to his home village, he discovers he has been gone for at least 100 years. When he opens the forbidden jewelled box (tamatebako), given to him by Otohime on his departure, he turns into an old man. The tale originates from the legend of Urashimako (Urashima no ko or Ura no…
Oto-hime gives the tamatebako to Urashima Tarō (Matsuki Heikichi, 1899)
Urashima Tarō opens the box and is transformed into an old man (Matsuki Heikichi, 1899)