A bronze model of Urashima Taro Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century Cast in two shades of bronze with highlights in gilt as Urashima Taro dressed in robes decorated with roundels containing phoenixes, dragons, and paulownia, and a grass skirt, looking down at the minogame (bushy-tailed tortoise) he holds in his hand, a box suspended from a pole on his right shoulder, a smoking set hanging on his hip, signed in a gilt rectangular reserve Miyao and sealed, set on a wood stand decorated with scrolling vines in gold hiramaki-e 15 1/2in (39.4cm) high overall