This is a classic Japanese folktale, dating back to the 10th century, about a poor bamboo cutter who discovers a tiny baby girl inside a stalk of bamboo. The bamboo cutter and his wife take the baby in and raise her as their own, and she grows up to be a beautiful
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The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is a monogatari containing elements of Japanese folklore. Written by an unknown author in the late 9th or early 10th century during the Heian period, it is considered the oldest surviving work in the monogatari form.