Turtle with monkey, A monkey in a red coat is sitting on the back of a long-haired turtle (minogame). The long-haired turtle symbolizes a long life, because of the belief that the turtle would get a tail from seaweed after it had lived for 10 000 years. With one poem, tortoises, turtles, monkeys, apes, Hiroshige (I), Utagawa (mentioned on object), Japan, 1824, paper, colour woodcut, h 214 mm ⊙ w 181 mm.