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Title: The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

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Title: The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Title Record # 1580467
Author: uncredited
Date: 2013-02-17
Type: SHORTFICTION
Language: English
Synopsis: 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.
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter and Other Fantastic Stories 2013-02-17 ed. David Lear Firestone Books 978-1-909608-00-9
£8.99?£: UK pound
200
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
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