this picture is Bunbuku chagama & Uurashima taro. Urashima Tarō is a Japanese legend about a fisherman who rescues a turtle and is rewarded for this with a visit to Ryūgū-jō, the palace of Ryūjin, the Dragon God, under the sea. He stays there for three days and, upon his return to his village, finds himself 300 years in the future.
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter ( Taketori Monogatari?), also known as Princess Kaguya ( Kaguya Hime), is a 10th-century Japanese folktale. It is considered the oldest extant Japanese narrative[1][2] and an early example of proto-science fiction.[3]It primarily details the life of a mysterious girl called Kaguya-hime, who was discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant. She is said to be from Tsuki-no-Miyako (“The Capital of the Moon”).Hanasaka Jiisan also called Hanasaka Jiijii , is a Japanese fairy tale. Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford collected it in Tales of Old Japan (1871), as “The Story of the Old Man Who Made Withered Trees to Blossom”
