Notes
gaze (熱心にじっと)見つめる、熟視する;
robe ローブ、長いワンピースの婦人服;
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Long ago in Japan, a bamboo cutter found a tiny, glowing princess inside a bamboo stalk. He and his wife raised her as their own. Named Kaguya, she grew into a beautiful woman. Many princes came to marry her, but she set impossible tasks for them. Kaguya was sad often, gazing at the moon. One night, she told her parents she was from the Moon and must return. When moon messengers came, Kaguya sadly left her parents, giving them a robe to remember her. As she left, she looked back at Earth, her heart full of love and sadness. Her parents missed her greatly, remembering the joy she brought them. (An English version of “竹取物語”)
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