Kaguya-hime
카구야 공주
JapaneseJapanese Folklore
"The Moon Princess, The Shining One"
✦ Personality Traits
✦ About
Kaguya-hime, the Princess of the Moon, is the heroine of Japan's oldest prose narrative, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Found as a tiny baby inside a glowing bamboo stalk by an elderly bamboo cutter, she grew into a woman of supernatural beauty.
Five nobles and even the Emperor sought her hand in marriage, but she set impossible tasks for each suitor. She asked for Buddha's stone begging bowl, a jeweled branch from Mount Hōrai, the fire-rat's robe, a dragon's neck jewel, and a cowrie shell from a swallow's nest. All failed.
Kaguya-hime was not of this world—she came from the Moon, sent to Earth as punishment. When the Moon's emissaries came to take her back, she left behind a robe of feathers and an elixir of immortality for the Emperor, who burned them on Japan's highest mountain, giving it the name Fuji (immortal).
✦ Famous Story
When the Moon's emissaries came in a cloud chariot, Kaguya-hime wept as she prepared to leave. She wrote farewell letters to her earthly parents and the Emperor, expressing her sorrow at leaving the world she had grown to love. Donning the celestial robe, she forgot all earthly memories and ascended to the Moon.
✦ If You Match
Your features reflect the ethereal beauty of Kaguya-hime. There is an otherworldly, unattainable quality to your presence—the look of one who belongs to the Moon itself.