hand in marriage, whom she turns away by challenging them each with an impossible task; she later attracts the affection of the Emperor of Japan. At the tale's end, Kaguya-hime reveals her celestial origins and returns to the Moon. The story is also known as , after its protagonist.

Background

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is considered the oldest surviving , though its exact date of composition is unknown. The oldest surviving manuscript is dated to 1592. A poem in the , a 10th-century

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