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Visual depiction of Urashima Taro

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Vol. II · Polytheism · trickster

Urashima Taro

Japanese liminal fisherman


returning from the dragon palace under the sea to find three hundred years have passed, the forbidden box of time in his hands

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
trickster

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.