One day, an old bamboos cutter discovered a small girl of an infinite beauty in a bamboos forest on the Fuji Mount's foot. He introduced her to his wife who adopted her immediately and named Kaguya: "Radiant Princess of the Slender Bamboos".
The girl, cherished by her adoptive parents, grew rapidly and became the most beautiful woman of the region. Soon many suitors came to ask for her hand.
Finally, she accepted a powerful local lord as her husband. Together they enjoyed several years of happiness...
But one year, Kaguya princess became morose. And, the eighth month of the lunar calendar she disclosed her true nature to her husband.
She revealed to him that she was not human and that she belonged to the people of the moon. She moreover announced to him that on the 15th of the month, a full moon's day, her parents will come to look for her.
And, indeed, the 15th day of the lunar calendar's eighth month, the king of the moon, escorted by some knights of his court, came to pick up his daughter.
The bamboos cutter's supplications were useless and all the soldiers mobilized by the local lord remained helpless, subjugated by the sparkle of the beings come down from the moon.
Before leaving, the Kaguya princess gave her husband a magic mirror in which she will appear each time he will look in it.
Crazed with grief, the lord pursued his beloved to the top of the Fuji Mount. There, clasping the magic mirror to his heart, he threw himself in the Fuji Mount's crater. Just a moment later a violent volcanic eruption occurred.
Since, it is said that the Fuji San's eruptions express the deep disappointment in love of the former lord of the Fuji Mount's area.
It is also said that, from time to time, the Kaguya princess appears above the Fuji mount which she illuminates with her sparkling beauty...
 Demoniiam · Fri Jan 12, 2007 @ 05:18pm · 0 Comments |
