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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.