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"Sei-getu"
"Sei-getu"
Hakata Doll
By Kosho Sato
H.17cm
This sweet doll is made based on the Japanese folk tale "Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of Princess Kaguya)". :
One day while walking in the bamboo forest, the old, childless bamboo cutter comes across a mysterious, shining stalk of bamboo. Cutting it open, inside he finds a baby. Rejoicing to find such a beautiful girl, he takes her home and he and his wife raise her as their own child, naming her Kaguya-hime. Kaguya-hime grew from a small baby into a woman of normal size and unusual beauty. At first, Taketori-no Okina tries to sequester her from outsiders, but over time, the news of her beauty spreads.
Five princes come to Taketori-no Okina's residence, where Kaguya-hime has resided ever since she was found, to ask for her hand in marriage. She is reluctant to marry, so she concocts impossible tasks for the princes to accomplish before they can win her. After this, the emperor, called Tennō in Japanese, comes to see the strangely beautiful Kaguya-hime and upon falling in love asks her to marry him. Although he is not subjected to the impossible trials that thwarted the princes, Kaguya-hime rejects his requests for marriage as well.
That summer whenever Kaguya-hime would see the full moon her eyes filled with tears, for she knew that on such a night, she would be forced to leave this home forever. The princess is not of this world and must return to her people on the moon. As the day for her to return approaches, Tennō sets many guards around her house to protect her from the moon people, but when an embassy of "Heavenly Beings" arrives at the door of the Bamboo Harvester's house, the many guards are blinded by the strange light.
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