Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3568954-20140625232535/@comment-3568954-20140626011735

Silver-Haired Seireitou wrote: I love how it's impossible for people to just accept the possibility of something, even if Kishi himself didn't outright confirm it directly, without pulling the "well, if that's true, then we might as well say Kishi is copying absolutely everything from that mythology/folk-story". Seriously.

And Elveonora, here is where I arrive to pop your precious little bubble. The difference here is, Kishi never outright confirmed Kaguya being inspired by Kaguya from the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter; this is just an assumption made by us based on actually very little fact, which is why it is placed solely in the trivia section for speculation. The only reason we accept it as fact is because anybody even slightly familiar with Japanese folk stories knows about the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. And how Kaguya, Naruto's Kaguya, truly connects with the story's Princess Kaguya. But Kishi has constantly been using actual buddhist concepts, like the Rinnegan's Six Paths Technique (gave them the same names and abilities that have to do with what they represent), so it is actually a very accurate assumption to make that the third eye being a representation of higher levels of consciousness; more so than any parallel made to Kaguya of this manga and the Kaguya of the Bamboo Cutter story.

But hey, what do I know. I just write fanon.

exactly not to mention other parallels with the bamboo cutter such as being the rabbit princess