# Tortoise

亀 kame

![Tortoise](https://www.furoshiki.com/motifs/kame.svg)

Longevity: "the crane lives a thousand years, the tortoise ten thousand".

China and Japanese folk tales

Paired with the crane as the classic longevity couple; tortoises symbolise long life in folk tales.

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