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Urashima Taro and the Sea Palace
Urashima Taro and the Sea Palace is a legend from Sea of Japan coast, Japan, JP β a folk story passed down over generations. This file collects its origins, its meaning and how it has been retold.
Where does the legend of Urashima Taro and the Sea Palace come from?
- Location
- Sea of Japan coast, Japan, JP
- Kind of legend
- Folk tale
- Coordinates
- 35.536, 135.196
- Testimonies
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What is the legend of Urashima Taro and the Sea Palace?
Along the coast of the Sea of Japan, fishing villages have long told of Urashima Taro, a kind young fisherman rewarded and undone by a single act of mercy. One day he saves a small turtle tormented by children on the beach and sets it free. Soon after, a great turtle returns to thank him and carries him beneath the waves to the Dragon Palace of Ryugu-jo, home of the sea god, where the beautiful princess Otohime welcomes him. There Urashima lives in delight amid coral halls and endless feasts, and what feels like a few days of bliss stretches on. At last he longs to see his ageing mother, and the princess sends him home with a mysterious lacquered box, begging him never to open it. Returning to shore, he finds his village strange and his family long dead; centuries have passed in the world above. Bewildered and grieving, he opens the forbidden box, and a puff of white smoke rises. In an instant the years catch him: his hair turns white and he ages into a frail old man, the price of a paradise outside of time.
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