The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

かぐや姫の物語

A bamboo cutter named Sanuki no Miyatsuko slices open a glowing stalk and finds a thumb-sized girl inside; he and his wife take her home, where she grows at an unnatural speed and the local children come to call her Takenoko, Little Bamboo. When the grove keeps yielding gold and fine cloth, Miyatsuko reads it as a sign she is meant to be a noblewoman, and moves the family to the capital to present her to court as Princess Kaguya. Takahata's Ghibli film adapts the tenth-century Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.