2-756-788 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Urashima and the Sea King's Daughter', 1912. Urashima Taro, a fisherman rescues a turtle and is taken to the Dragon Palace (Ryugu-jo) where princess Otohime entertains him for several days, actually 100 years. He is told not to open the Tamatebako she gives him, when he does he turns into an old man. From "Myths & Legends of Japan", by F. Harland Davis. [George G. Harrap & Company, London, 1912]