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KAGUYA HIME NO NIKKI
Diaries of the Bamboo Princess
Created on 2005-10-02 07:49:55 (#8437904), last updated 2009-02-20
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Basic Info| Name: | Shining Princess of the Bamboo Forest |
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| Birthdate: | 1984-04-02 |
| Location: | San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States |
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Once upon a time in old Japan, near the city of Kyoto, there was a forest of bamboo trees. In this forest lived an old man whose job it was to find the best bamboo trees and cut them for market. One night when he was in the forest, as it happened it was the night of the full moon, he saw something very strange - a bamboo stump with a golden light glowing inside of it. He called for his wife to come and see. And when they looked inside the stump to see where the light was coming from, they discovered a tiny beautiful girl.
The old woodsman and his wife were delighted. They took the beautiful child home with them to raise as their own daughter. The entire village came out to celebrate the arrival of the little bamboo princess. The parents named her Kaguya Hime, which means, "The Shining Princess of the Bamboo." And just as the bamboo grows from a tiny sprout to a tall tree in only a few months, so Kaguya Hime grew in just a few months into a beautiful woman.
Word of the lovely bamboo princess spread very quickly throughout the land. And rich and powerful men came from all over Japan to seek her hand in marriage. One said, "Marry me, Kaguya Hime, I am the richest man in Japan." Another said, "No, no, marry me. I am the bravest warrior in Japan." A third said, "Pay no attention to these two. Marry me, Kaguya Hime." Still more handsome and famous men came to court the beautiful bamboo princess.
But Kaguya Hime spoke to them very sadly.
"I cannot marry you as I cannot marry any man on this earth. I am a princess from the palace of the moon, and I was placed here for only a short time. On the night of the next full moon at exactly midnight, a mission is coming from the moon to take me back. I have grown so fond of my dear mother and father, and all of the people and places of Japan, that it breaks my poor heart to have to say farewell to them."
Kaguya Hime's mother wept bitterly at the thought of losing her beloved daughter, and asked, "When is the next full moon?" And Kaguya Hime answered with terrible sadness, "On the 15th of the month, tonight." And almost as she spoke, the procession from the moon appeared to escort the tearful princess back to the palace of the moon.
But her old mother and father always believed that one day another golden light would appear to them in a bamboo stump in the forest, to signal to them that Kaguya Hime had come back to them on earth.
And who knows? Perhaps Kaguya Hime will return.
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