#princess kaguya

[mediademon]

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) dir. Isao Takahata

[a-gnosis]

9: Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke

My ex used to listen to music from Touhou (which, if I've understood things correctly, is a bullet hell shoot 'em up video game series with pretty girls). I liked the track "Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke", also called "Mokou's Theme", since I thought it was a fitting soundtrack to some of the chaotic, tragicomic scenes in my comics. Much later I learned that the title of that track is a reference to the Japanese folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (also known as The Tale of Princess Kaguya).

When Kaguya has to return to her people on the Moon she leaves a letter and some elixir of immortality for the Emperor, who is in love with her. However, the Emperor doesn't want to live for eternity without being able to see her. He orders the letter and elixir to be burned on the mountain that is closest to heaven, hoping that the smoke will reach Kaguya.

[cantheykillmacbeth]

Could Princess Kaguya from Japanese mythology kill Macbeth?

Yes, Princess Kaguya from the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter could kill Macbeth!

A celestial princess born from a glowing stalk of bamboo upon it being cut open by a man named Taketori no Okina, she applies for the Gender Clause, Unconventional Birth Clause, and Birth Parent Clause!

Thank you for your submission!

[maggiecheungs]

Lifetimes come and go in turn…

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2015) dir. Isao Takahata ↳ Kaguya through the years

[moonstone0810]

[busraspostsblog]

"But for the Princess and Sutemaru, that tomorrow never came..."💔

The Tale of Princess Kaguya

[bgoldenart]

Redesigned my EAH OC, the daughter of Princess Kaguya 🌙🌸

[marysmirages]

Princess Kaguya (2023)

Illustration for japanese 10th century fairytale " The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter".

[elizabugz]

[nerdreamer]

[fattymadiy]

the tale of princess kaguya

[mediademon]

From that day on, Princess Kaguya was like a different person, devoting herself to her studies in pensive silence.

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) dir. Isao Takahata

[hotwaterandmilk]

Series: Kaguya hime Artist: Shimizu Reiko Publication: LaLa (01/1997) Details: LaLa 1997 Calendar (November) Source: Scanned from my personal collection

[digitalsnail]

i love the autism princess

[dragonkeeper19600]

Based on the trailer, the mononoke in the next Mononoke film will be the hinezumi (比禰須三) or "fire rat."

The fire rat originates from China, where it was known as the huoshu (火鼠). They were said to dwell inside fires found in incombustible trees, and it was believed that their hides could be made into a cloth called huo huan bu (火浣布), meaning "fire-laundered cloth." Cloth of this type was not only fireproof but would turn white and shake off all its dirt when burned. The truth was that fire-laundered cloth was a real product, but it was made from fibrous asbestos and not the hair of a fire rat. Oops.

What's particularly interesting to me about the fire rat is the role it plays in the Princess Kaguya story, also known as "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter."

For those who need a refresher, "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter" tells the story of an elderly bamboo cutter who finds a little girl only three inches tall sitting inside the hollow of a bamboo tree. He adopts her, and she grows up into a great beauty. So great, in fact, that a bunch of men show up trying to woo her, but she's totally disinterested in marrying, despite her foster father's wish to see her settled with a good man.

Finally, she gives the five most persistent men requests to bring her five ultra rare items with the promise that she'll marry whoever succeeds in bringing her what she asks for.

She asks the third guy to go to China and bring back the skin of a fire rat. None of the men she makes these requests to are up to the task, and all of them find ways to try and weasel out of going on these impossible quests. The third guy never even goes to China but writes to a friend of his who's already in China to bring him the fire rat's pelt. The friend sells him a pelt for a huge sum of money, but when the third suitor hands it over to Kaguya, she tests it by throwing it into a fire. It burns up at once, showing that it's fake.

The only reason this scene occurred to me is just because I happened to read "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter" just last week. Considering the focus the second Mononoke film will most likely have on the concubines and sexuality, I kind of wonder if any connection to that fairytale will come up.

[daydreamerwonderkid]

I don't have the energy atm to draw it, but a mashup of Princess Kaguya and Madoka Magica would be so bad ass.

I'm mostly picturing the ending of Princess Kaguya with Homura desperately trying to stop Madoka from returning to the moon.

I just think it'd be neat :3