Take this box with you, my beloved, but, whatever happens do not open it.
Date1902
Artist
Bertha Corson Day
(American painter and illustrator, 1875–1968)
Illustration Citation"Urashima," in Where the Wind Blows, by Katharine Pyle (New York: R.H. Russell, 1902)
MediumInk, watercolor, and gouache on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 19 3/8 × 13 3/4 in. (49.2 × 34.9 cm)
sheet: 23 3/4 × 17 11/16 in. (60.3 × 44.9 cm)
sheet: 23 3/4 × 17 11/16 in. (60.3 × 44.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1988
Object number1988-172
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextBertha Corson Day's major work was a series of twenty-two illustrations for the book Where the Wind Blows, a collection of fairy tales from different countries, written by Katharine Pyle and published in 1902. In this story, Japanese fisherman Urashima accepts a box from his wife, the daughter of the sea god, with a warning never to open it. Later, when he does open it, he instantly turns into an old man.
