A character in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, who is a princess from the Moon. Princess Kaguya, a character in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter written in the 10th century, is a princess from the Moon. One day, an old bamboo cutter finds Princess Kaguya in a shining stalk of bamboo. The old man and his wife decides to raise her as their own daughter. She soon grows to a girl of extraordinary beauty and attracts many suitors. Princess Kaguya then devises five impossible tasks to refuse their proposals. Princess Kaguya will come to the land again on a full moon night. And a special one will get her Celestial Clothing Box.