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The Bamboo Cutter is a
Japanese folktale & one of many featuring a miraculous birth. Princess Kaguya was miniature girl found by an old bamboo cutter inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant. It was later discovered that she came from the moon.

Art: Hiroshige

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2020-02-06

WHO ARE THE BLACK SWIMMERS? The "swimmers in the black sea" are who undertake that most unthinkable of acts for their species - make war. These soldiers are given a funeral by their loved ones before entering service.

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2019-05-07