Wikipedia: A 10th-century Japanese folktale, tells of a mysterious Moon Princess growing up on Earth as the adopted daughter of a bamboo cutter and his wife, dazzling human Princes and the Emperor himself with her beauty, and finally going back to her people at "The Capital of the Moon" (Tsuki-no-Miyako 月の都), leaving many broken hearts on Earth. It is among the first texts of any culture assuming the Moon to be an inhabited world and describing travel between it and the Earth.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| February 2013 |
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The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter and Other Fantastic Stories | Firestone Books | Anthology | 157 |