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Princess Otohime keeps him there with feasts and music until he grows homesick, then sends him off with a box he must never open. Back in his village nobody knows him, because centuries have gone by. He lifts the lid, a cloud of white smoke pours out, and he is an old man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA pale teal dragon twists up through red peonies above a wall of curling blue waves, and a tiny snowcapped Fuji sits in the trough between two crests. 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