Once upon a time...
A very poor but with very kind heart, young man lived with his wife in a very poor village.
The village is actually nearby fishing port.
And he go to sea and fishing fishes.
Behind his tiny house, there was a big bamboo woods.
There are so many bamboos...
One day He came back from sea and told his wife:
"I see something shiny in the bamboo wood."
And his wife said, "oh yeah."
So they looked back their back yard, and lots of bamboos in their backyard.
And going through the mountain.
And then she said, "let’s go and take a look."
So, both went to see what really shining among bamboos.
And, then they found a very shiny and beautiful bamboo.
So they said, "look at this, why this bamboo it is so shiny."
The man said,"okay, let’s cut it."
So they cut bamboo.
And they found a beautiful baby there, a baby girl.
And the woman said, "look, I found a little tiny baby here in this bamboo."
And man said, "oh yea, oh she is so beautiful. Since we don’t have a baby, let’s adopt her and, I’d like to raise her."
and she said, "yea, I love her already."
And they picked up the little baby girl from the bamboo.
The baby was so beautiful.
Her skin is pink, and eyes are shiny.
The man said "oh, I found another shiny stuff."
"what is it."
"oh this is a gold coin."
And so they picked up the gold coin, and went home...
They are very poor but they have very warm heart, and they’re kind gentle people.
They gave a lots of candies and cookies to kids in their neighborhood, who are always starved.
So that, they don’t have anything to eat usually in their house.
But, the man just came back from sea so they had fish.
Now they just picked up also a gold coin.
And then they said, "okay, let’s buy beautiful clothes for baby.
And let’s give her enough food, and feed her."
So they went to town and came back with food and fed the baby.
They named the baby Kaguya...
And after that, strange things kept happening.
When they thought, "oh, we would like to have a nice house so that, our daughter Kaguya is going to enjoy more space."
Then they always found a shiny bamboo in the back yard.
And they go there and cut bamboo then they always found gold coins there.
So they built a beautiful house.
And they bought beautiful clothes to their daughter.
And, and they started living very happily.
And Kaguya became prettier and prettier, and taller and taller.
Finally, she has become a teenager.
Then she started looking up the moon and crying.
So man and woman asked, "what happened my daughter. What makes you so sad. "
Then, Kaguya looked up her parents and said, "dad and mum, nothing. But I just sad, I'm just very, very sad."
And didn’t tell her dad and mum anything why she’s crying.
And when she reached seventeen years old, her beauty, and nice gentle personality, became famous.
And, many many young men wanted to marry her.
They came to her house and asked Kaguya to be their wife.
However, Kaguya didn’t want to marry to anybody.
One day, Lord of that region heard about the beauty of Kaguya and he came to see her, and fell in love with her right away.
So he proposed to her.
But Kaguya looked sad and said, "no, I cannot marry you."
And, one day it was full moon.
The moon was beautiful, and Kaguya was looking up the moon.
Then, they saw a beautiful ship coming down from the moon, to her.
And, the ship finally arrived nearby her.
Then four strong warriors with dignified face and dignified manner.
They came to Kaguya and said, "Princess Kaguya, I am Lord Spring."
And second man said, "I am Lord Winter."
And third man said, "I am Lord Summer."
And fourth one said, "I am Lord Autumn."
And then, behind four gentlemen warriors there are seven beautiful servant girls.
And then next girls said, "Princess Kaguya, your highness, I am Lady Monday."
And second one said, "I am Lady Tuesday...
Lady Wednesday.
Lady Thursday.
Lady Friday.
Lady Saturday.
Lady Sunday.
I’m your servants, your highness. Your wish is my command."
and they bowed very gently toward Princess Kaguya.
And the man and woman were so surprised because they treated Kaguya so wonderful.
And they called Kaguya,"your highness, Princess, Kaguya."
And then, the man called Lord Winter, told the man and woman.
"Princess Kaguya is my our king’s daughter, ruling the moon. And we came here to bring her back to the moon.
Because she’s now seventeen-years-old."
Then beautiful music, and beautiful smell, just filled with air.
And, Kaguya said to her mom and dad, "thank you very much father and mother, now I have to go back to my country.
So that I can not marry to your Lord.
And thank you very much, I love you forever.
When you miss me, you look at moon, then I’m going to smile at you."
Then, princess Kaguya boarded in the ship and the ship gradually going up to the moon.
And everybody said, "good bye, Princess Kaguya."
The man and woman cried, cried, cried because they missed Kaguya so much.
So that every day they looked at moon, and talking to Kaguya, "how are you. I miss you so much. I love you so much."
Then each time they say moon smiles.