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The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Princess

LEGEND

One of the best-known mythological figures in Japan is the Kaguya-hime, about which there are numerous legends. Among them we can see how some of their legends refer to some of the most relevant geographical elements of the island, such as Mount Fuji. One of them is the following, which also incorporates references to the reason for the fog that covers said mountain (actually a volcano that still shows some activity). According to legend, there was once a humble elderly couple who had never been able to have children despite deeply wanting it. To live, the couple depended on collecting bamboo and using it to make different items. One night, the old man went into the forest to cut and collect bamboo, but suddenly he noticed that one of the samples he had cut was shining in the moonlight. After examining the stem, he found inside it a small girl, a few centimeters in size. Since he and his wife had never been able to have children, the man took her to his home, where the couple would give her the name Kaguya and decide to raise her as their daughter. In addition to this, the branch from which the girl had emerged began to generate gold and precious stones over time, making the family rich. The girl grew as time went by, becoming a beautiful woman. Her beauty would be such that she would begin to have numerous suitors, but she refused to marry any. The news about her beauty reached the ears of the emperor, who, intrigued, requested that she come to his presence, to which Kaguya-hime refused. When she refused, the emperor would come in person to visit her, quickly falling in love with her and intending to take her with him to his castle, to which the young woman would also refuse. From then on the emperor would continue to maintain communication with Kaguya-hime through numerous letters.

The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Princess

LEGEND

One day, the young woman spoke with her adoptive father about the reason for her refusal, as well as the reason why she spent hours every night looking at the sky: she came from the Moon, her home, of which she was a princess and to which I was destined to return before long. Distraught, the parents told the emperor, who sent guards to try to prevent the woman from being returned to the Moon. Despite the security measures, one full moon night a cloud descended from the Moon with the intention of taking it away. Before leaving again for her native home, however, Kaguya-hime said goodbye to her parents and left behind a love letter for the emperor, along with a bottle in which she left the elixir of eternal life to the latter. The letter and the bottle were given to the emperor, who decided to take them to the highest mountain and create a bonfire. There, once the moon rose, the emperor threw the letter and the elixir into the fire, generating smoke that would rise towards the place where his beloved had left. That mountain is Mount Fuji-yama, and even today we can see the smoke from the emperor's bonfire on its top.

The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Princess

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