Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24953394-20140611085622/@comment-25000772-20140618144608

I think it's important to note that Kishi is seemingly basing Kaguya off the ancient Japanese fairy tale, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. I'm not sure what is Kishi planning but I feel they are too references that this has to be basing what Kaguya is coming from. Here it is.

kaguya is the main character in this particular fairy tale. like thumbelina, she was born out of a plant—a piece of glowing bamboo, as it happens—and she was incredibly tiny. she was small and sweet and she grew up to be extremely beautiful.

as a result, she got the attention of a lot of suitors, and in an effort to assess their worth or perhaps to get rid of them, she sent them off on impossible tasks that, in their nature of impossibility, were kind of cruel. three of them tried to cheat their way through, and she caught them. one of them simply gave up, and the last died in the attempt.

she was the unreachable, beautiful woman, and word of her got out to the emperor of japan who asked for her hand in marriage. instead of telling him to do a similarly impossible task, she flat out rejected him, saying that she couldn’t leave her home for his unfamiliar land.

they remained on speaking terms, though, and he wasn’t about to back down. he continued sending her letters, trying to persuade her, but to no avail.

interestingly enough, she began to become increasingly erratic. every time she saw the moon, she would weep, and her parents, who like any other parents, worried about her. one day, she caved and finally told them what was wrong—and revealed to them that her home was the moon.

she was homesick, lonely, and sad, unwilling to attach herself down to anybody. some versions say she was on earth because she was sent away during a war, and others say that she was being punished.

regardless, one day, her moon people came back for her, and she had to go. she left a letter for her parents, and one for the emperor with whom she kept correspondence, attaching a teeny bottle of the elixir of life to the letter.

the emperor, who was distraught upon hearing that she departed, told his men to take the letter and the elixir to the place closest to the moon. that place happened to be the highest mountain—mount fuji—to burn and destroy because he didn’t want to live an eternity without her. fuji, incidentally, translates to immortality.

it’s said that the smoke plumes that still rise from it (in a time where mount fuji was more of an active volcano) came from that original burning.

The references are interesting. The moon for obvious reasons, the bamboo because the tree of life, the sadness/cruelty/homesickness because I think all things are helpful to understanding character, and the volcano because Team 7 and Obito is right now inside one and above a pool of lava. What do you guys think Kishi could be going with this?