かぐやひめ

かぐやひめ【かぐや姫】

the Shining Princess (In the early Heian period Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Taketori monogatari), a bamboo cutter finds the baby princess inside a shining bamboo. Calling her Kaguyahime he and his wife bring her up as their daughter. She later refuses all the fine men who want to marry her but fail her difficult tests; she even refuses the emperor. Finally she announces that she is from the Palace of the Moon, and must return. Putting on a robe of feathers to wipe out her human memories, she departs on the night of the August full moon, leaving behind for the emperor a letter and the elixir of eternal life. Unwilling to live so long without her, he has these things burnt on the top of Mt. Fuji - the nearest place to heaven).