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News of  Kaguya-hime’s beauty and



            the failure of  the five princes reached




            the Emperor of  Japan. He went to



            see her himself, and though Kaguya-



            hime refused to see him, the Emperor




            was able to steal a peek inside her



            room. Upon laying his eyes on her,



            he immediately fell in love with her




            beauty. Never had he seen anyone so



            beautiful and radiant. He proposed                                                                                           poetry to Kaguya-hime, and she




            marriage to her, and she refused.                                                                                            replied with her own poems. The



                                                                                                                                         Emperor continued to ask her




            Though he was rejected, the                                                                                                  to marry him, and Kaguya-hime



            Emperor wrote many letters of                                                                                                continued to politely refuse.
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