Japanese tale, Davis retelling
Moonland
Moonland is the birthplace that Lady Kaguya discloses as she grows sorrowful while watching the moon. Its inhabitants arrive on a descending cloud, bearing a canopied car and demanding her return. The narrative supplies a celestial homeland and its emissaries rather than a detailed map of a lunar kingdom.
Also known as Capital of Moonland · Moonfolk
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In the sources
Kaguya's disclosed birthplace
LiteraryKaguya tells her attendants that she is no ordinary mortal and that her birthplace is the Capital of Moonland. Her increasing sorrow accompanies her watching the moon.
Visitors upon a cloud
LiteraryThe Moonfolk descend near the ground on a cloud with a canopied car. The guards' arrows go astray, and the visitors command that Kaguya be surrendered.
Context & interpretation
This entry records Moonland and the Moonfolk within Davis's literary retelling. It does not present the visitors as an astronomical observation, an extraterrestrial report or evidence of habitation on the physical Moon. The illustration belongs to Kaguya's departure, and should be read in that narrative context.
Original passages
Source 1
Myths and Legends of Japan
her birthplace was the Capital of MoonlandOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Chapter III, printed p. 75
Read directly from the active prepared scan; line breaks and spacing normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0052-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0052-E001-P0086
- Original scan leaf
- 101
- Recorded leaf number
- 101
- Current Reader position
- 85
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
Source 2
Myths and Legends of Japan
a company of MoonfolkOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Chapter III, printed p. 77
Read from the active scan; the line-break hyphen in Moon-folk is removed.
- Edition
- IMJ-0052-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0052-E001-P0089
- Original scan leaf
- 105
- Recorded leaf number
- 105
- Current Reader position
- 88
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
