The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Japanese:竹取物語; Taketori Monogatari) is a 10th centuryJapanesefolk tale. It is also known as The Legend of Princess Kaguya (かぐや姫の物語, Kaguya-hime no Monogatari).
It is a massive 54-volume tome that tells of the romantic adventures of noblemen, centering around the prince Genji, who has gone down in Japanese folklore as their version of Casanova or Don Juan.
Five centuries of great upheaval and almost constant war followed the Battle of Dannoura in 1185, in which the ruling Taira clan was defeated by the Minamoto clan (also known as the Genji).
The battle became the subject of the most famous prose piece of the time, the Heike Monogatari (The Tales of the Taira Clan, c.1220) whose author is unknown.
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