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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.