Lady Kaguya's Secret: A Japanese Tale

By Jirina Marton

The ancient Japanese tale of the Moon Princess and her Emperor of the ill-fated love between immortal and mortal dates back to 935 A.D. Toronto-based artist Jirina Marton traveled to Japan to form her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550374419
• ISBN13: 9781550374414
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Annick Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.6" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 5 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

A Story of Amazement for everyone.

Though I have not actually read this book or been formally told the story of The Bamboo Cutter, I know most of it legend. After watching InuYasha; The Movie 2, Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (reffering to Kaguya's moon palace) I was very interested. If you have seen the series by Rumiko Takahashi (InuYasha, that is) then you'll know of InuYasha red kimono that is indestructable. It's made of the fur of a fire-rat which I believe is one of the things Kaguya orderred a man to fetch (in the stories, not in InuYasha {in InuYasha she must collect firerat fur and the other items like the Stone Cup of Buddah (which happen to be the things Kaguya ordered men to get in the stories) to oppen her moon palace. You see in InuYasha Kaguya was evil (and it's funny because she was working with a minion of the real baddie in InuYash a who was named KaguRA) so the story wasn't the same of course!}) And InuYasha isn't the only anime/manga Kaguya has been in or refferenced in. Sailor Moon and Oh My Goddes also feature Kaguya. I think it's cool to learn about something and then hear about it somewhere else. Though you can simply but a Bamboo Cutter story book, It's much more interesting to learn about things in the form of a chapter book. Definentally a choice to make.

Kids: it's better than TV!

This is a wonderful retelling of a classic myth. It educates young readers about the origin of some symbols and themes that they have already seen in popular cartoons and comics such as Naoko Takeuchi's "Sailor Moon", Kosuke Fujishima's "Oh My Goddess" and Yuji Moriyama's "Project A-ko"