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March 2015

Title【Touhou MMD】Tale of the Bamboo Cutter ~Fujiwara no Mokou's Story~ Full Version (English subs)
ChannelTouhouSubs
Published2015-02-23T01:54:09.000Z
DescriptionReprinted/translated with the creator's permission.
創作者様の許可を得て転載・翻訳しております。
Creator: maQam (まかむ) http://www.nicovideo.jp/user/16040566
Original title: 竹取物語~藤原妹紅編~完全版
Original link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22601629
Upload date: January 4, 2014. 21:36.
Creator comment: "第9回MMD杯参加作品(sm18332103)の完全版です!
竹取物語をベースに、妹紅の生い立ちを考えてみました。
原作とは異なる部分もありますが、お楽しみいただけたら幸いです。

不死の煙オルゴールアレンジ「過去まで届け、琴の音色」をUltraMArine 馬さん(user/1428546)に作っていただきました。
動画編集はぐやもこたんさん(user/7458747)がやってくださいました。
まかむのマイリストmylist/28209509"

== Music ==
00:15 - 00:46 "【和風】プレインエイジア【東方自作アレンジ】" by amm http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17350418
00:56 - 01:44 "過去まで届け、琴の音色" by UltraMArine 馬 (arranged specifically for this video)
02:08 - 05:41 "夢みることり" sung by 7 Vocaloids "【VOCALOID7人で】夢みることりを合わせてみた【再修正版】" http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8042331 by sakura, originally composed by はややP http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2234368
06:04 - 08:56 "【和風】プレインエイジア【東方自作アレンジ】" by amm http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17350418
10:18 - 11:18 "【和風?】プレインエイジア【東方自作アレンジ】" by amm http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/nm16585034
11:17 - 15:13 "ムーンダスト" by GET IN THE RING, from the album After everlasting http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm10989070

== Notes ==
This is the last video in a series of three beautiful videos by maQam that assume knowledge of the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Before you watch these videos, please take 20 minutes to read the information below. You should do this anyway since it will help you understand Kaguya's and Mokou's backstory!

(2 min) The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, also known as Princess Kaguya or Princess Moonlight, is a 10th-century Japanese folktale.
* An old bamboo cutter discovers Kaguya as a tiny baby in a glowing bamboo.
* He raises Kaguya with his wife, and in three months, she grows to be a young woman of shining beauty.
* Kaguya attracts many suitors, but she refuses to see any of them.
* Kaguya gives five particularly zealous aristocratic suitors impossible tasks to discourage them, and all fail.
-The first suitor is told to bring her the Buddha's stone bowl from India. Since traveling abroad was very dangerous, he fakes his voyage and brings a stone bowl from Kyoto. When Kaguya points out that the stone bowl can't be the Buddha's, he throws away his pride and tries to woo her with poems.
-The second suitor, Prince Kuramochi (based on Fujiwara no Fuhito), is told to bring her the Jeweled Branch of Hourai, a branch of a jeweled tree on the legendary island of Hourai. He fakes his voyage and hires jewelers to make the branch. This is found out when the jewelers ask Kaguya directly for the payment.
-The fifth suitor (based on the head of the Mononobe clan at the time) is told to bring a cowrie shell laid by a swallow. He tries to complete his impossible task honestly and dies in the process.
* Even the Emperor of Japan requests her hand in marriage but is refused.
* On a night of full moon, a chariot comes from the Moon to take Kaguya back.
* Kaguya leaves a vial of elixir of immortality with the Emperor, who orders it to be burned atop Mount Fuji.

The Touhou Kaguya is based on this Kaguya. Mokou is thought to be the daughter of Fujiwara no Fuhito. (In the world of Touhou, Mokou became immortal by getting this elixir while it was being carried up the mountain; see Mokou's story in the Bougetsushou novel, Cage in Lunatic.)

(15 min) Read the following treatment of the tale: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4018/4018-h/4018-h.htm#bamboo
(Or listen to an audio recording: http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/72/japanese-fairy-tales/4834/the-bamboo-cutter-and-the-moon-child/ )
Mokou's father appears as the Second Knight.

== Translation notes ==
10:24 - 10:28 Footnote #2 from Kanako's profile in Symposium of Post-Mysticism.

Translation/Sub: TouhouSubs