Otohime pressed the tamatebako into Urashima Tarō's hands as a parting gift when he left the Dragon Palace, warning him that he must never open it. The box held his stolen years — a final thread binding him to the sea princess's underwater world.
Otohime gave Urashima Tarō the tamatebako upon his departure from Ryūgū-jō, warning him never to open it. When Urashima opened the forbidden box in despair, white smoke escaped and he aged three hundred years in an instant.
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