Have you lost your mind!

It's very suspicious and I'm starting to wonder if someone else has trained her before...

is something more precious and natural, like the warm cowry shell amulets, swallows use as a charm...

And the memory of this impure Earth, will lift from your mind forever.

Your Highness, if you wouldn't mind, perhaps you could perform something, on the koto for our esteemable guest.

Once upon a time long long ago now, there lived an old bamboo cutter.

He would make his way into the mountain forest and cut wild bamboo, from which he made all sorts of useful things...

His name was Sanuki no Miyatsuko.

One day he noticed a light shining from inside a bamboo stalk...

Curious the bamboo cutter approached it.

As he approached it, the light flowed into the ground...

creating something he had never seen before.

What is this?

Bamboo shoot sprouting so early? Even before the plums?

What is this?

Have mercy on me!

Hello...

May I ask please, who might you be, my lady?

Oh my! She is such a beautiful little princess!

It's a miracle! This must be a blessing from Heaven, I'm sure of it!