In this Japanese folktale a bamboo cutter finds a tiny girl in a glowing bamboo plant and takes her home where he and his wife raise her as their own. It turns out she actually came from the moon & eventually she has to leave her earthly parents to return home. 🎨Tsukioka Yoshitoshi #MythologyMonday

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The Chinese 'Ballad of Mulan' tells of the female warrior Hua Mulan, who disguised herself as a man and went to war for twelve years without anyone discovering her secret. #MythologyMonday 🎨'Mulan as depicted in the album Gathering Gems of Beauty' from Ballad of Mulan - Guo Maoqian.

The Chinese 'Ballad of Mulan' tells of the female warrior Hua Mulan, who disguised herself as a man and went to war for twelve years without anyone discovering her secret. #MythologyMonday 🎨'Mulan as depicted in the album Gathering Gems of Beauty' from Ballad of Mulan - Guo Maoqian.

The Bamboo Cutter is a Japanese folktale, considered by some to be the earliest science fiction story. Princess Kaguya was a miniature girl found by an old bamboo cutter inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant. It was later discovered that she came to... #MythologyMonday #JapaneseFolklore 1/3