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  2. Urashima Tarō - Wikipedia

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    Urashima Tarō and princess of Horai, by Matsuki Heikichi (1899) Urashima Tarō (浦島 太郎) is the protagonist of a Japanese fairy tale (otogi banashi), who, in a typical modern version, is a fisherman rewarded for rescuing a sea turtle, and carried on its back to the Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) beneath the sea.

  3. Urashima Tarō (otogi-zōshi) - Wikipedia

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    Urashima Tarō was composed during the Muromachi period. [1] It is a work of the otogi-zōshi genre. [1] Most of the surviving manuscripts of the work give its title as simply Urashima, written in hiragana. [1]

  4. Tamatebako - Wikipedia

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    The tamatebako appears in the story of "Urashima Tarō", whose modern version are generally all based on the national textbook. [6] It is told that Urashima Tarō the fisherman was invited to a sea palace ( Ryūgū or Dragon Palace) by the princess ( Otohime ) after saving a turtle.

  5. Ryūgū-jō - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, the Dragon Palace undersea became the standard in modern tellings of the Urashima tale. [20] A canonical example by the Taisho Era, according to one researcher, was the edition by Mori Rintarō (novelist Mori Ōgai) and others, published 1920–1921, whose illustration shows Urashima and the turtle peeing underneath at the palace. [21]

  6. Otogi-zōshi (Dazai) - Wikipedia

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    Otogi-zōshi (お伽草紙) is a Japanese collection of short stories by Osamu Dazai.In this work, the author is giving the reader a reinterpretation of classic Japanese fairy tales such as Urashima Taro, Tanuki and the Rabbit, Tale of a man with a wen and the Tongue-cut Sparrow, and gives the characters a new dimension which go against the national spirit which the Imperial Japanese ...

  7. Otogi-zōshi - Wikipedia

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    Urashima Tarō (浦嶋太郎) [1] Yokobue-zōshi (横笛草紙) [1] Shutendōji (酒呑童子) [1] Under the broad definition, there are around 500 surviving examples of otogi-zōshi. [1] Most are around 30–40 pages in length, [1] and are of uncertain date. [1]

  8. Oto-hime - Wikipedia

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    Oto-hime (right) gives the tamatebako to Urashima Tarō (Matsuki Heikichi, 1899) Oto-hime or Otohime (Japanese: 乙姫), in the Japanese folktale of Urashima Tarō, is the princess of the undersea palace Ryūgū-jō.

  9. Suzuka Gozen - Wikipedia

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    In folklore, she is a female thief, a celestial maiden (天女), or even a female oni, and her true form, depictions, and other information are varied, but from the Muromachi era onward, the legend was mostly connected to the story of Sakanoue no Tamuramaro's oni extermination. She is often assiocated with Ootakemaru.