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Keywords: Unno Moritoshi - Tsuba with Urashima Taro Leaving the Palace of the Dragon King - Walters 51139 - Back.jpg This tsuba depicts a scene from the story of Urashima Urashima was a fisherman who accidentally caught a tortoise in his net He freed the tortoise and threw it back in the sea Later a beautiful woman appeared to him on the water and took him to the underwater palace of her father the Dragon King She was tortoise he had saved They live happily in the palace for three years when Urashima decided he wanted to visit his hometown His wife gave him a box she told him not to open if he wanted to return to the underwater palace When Urashima arrived at his old home he could not find his parents or his house What had seemed like three years to him had actually been three hundred years When he opened the box he instantly aged those three hundred years and died This tsuba shows Urashima leaving the Dragon Palace with the box on the back of a tortoise The palace is also depicted on the reverse between 1870 1896 late Edo-Meiji silver copper gilt cm 7 96 6 7 0 43 accession number 51 139 34795 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Signature Shinobu-no-Okabe ni oite/Unno Moritoshi sen; Transcription Shinobu-no-Okabe ni oite/Unno Moritoshi sen; Translation At Shinobu-no-Okabe/Engraved by Unno Moritoshi place of origin Tokyo Ueno Japan Walters Art Museum license Tosogu Japanese sword fittings in the Walters Art Museum Unno Moritoshi Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Dragon Kings
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