Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: Coming Back on a Magic Turtle - Sketches by Yoshitoshi - Artelino

Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Title: Coming Back on a Magic Turtle - Sketches by Yoshitoshi

Date: 1882.

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Source: artelino - Japanese Prints
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"Yoshitoshi Ryakuga" (Sketches by Yoshitoshi). "Kikoku, Urashima". Urashima Taro, the Japanese Rip van Winkle. He is coming home riding on legendary "Mino Game" (1000 years old turtle with long tail) from the Dragon Palace in the deep sea. He holds a magic box which was given to him as a souvenir. He thought he had stayed 3 years in the Dragon Palace but actually hundred years had passed in his home village.

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