Suiyoubi no Campanella’s (Wednesday Campanella) new music video “Kaguyahime” is released

Suiyoubi no Campanella’s (Wednesday Campanella) new music video “Kaguyahime – The Bamboo Princess” was released on YouTube.

A song featured on Wednesday Campanella’s EP “Galapagos”, the music video explores whether Kaguya was an alien?

And what happened before and after the story of “Kaguyahime”?

Kaguya-Hime is the protagonist from a tale featured in the 10th century Japanese monogatari “Taketori Monegatari” (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter).  Kaguya-hime is discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant.  An old, childless, bamboo cutter named Taketori no Okina discovers the baby, takes her home and raises her as his own child and names her Kaguya-hime.

Since then, each time he cut down a stalk of bamboo, he would find a small nugget of gold and would become rich.

When Kaguya-hime grew older, she was beautiful, but Taketori no Okina tried to keep her away from outsiders and didn’t want news of her beauty spreading to others.

Five princes would come to Taketori no Okina’s residence asking for Kaguya-hime’s hand in marriage.  Kaguya-hime said that each of them must bring her a specified item, the first must bring the stone begging bowl of Buddha Gautama Shakyamuni from India, the other a jeweled branch from the mythical island of Horai, the third must bring a legenary robe of the fire-rate of China, the fourth must bring a colored jewel from a dragon’s neck and the final prince must bring a cowry shell born of swallows.

Even the Emperor of Japan, Mikado, fell in love with Kaguya-hime.

But Kaguya-hime became saddened with tears one night during the summer, after seeing the moon, she couldn’t help but cry.  When her parents asked her what was wrong, she said that she is not of this world and must return to her people on the moon.  The gold that made her family rich was a stipend from the people of the moon to care for Kaguya-hime.

As the heavenly beings from the moon came to get Kaguya-hime, despite Emperor Mikado doing all he can to prevent it, she leaves her parents her robe and a letter, and also gave a little of the elixir of life and a letter to the Emperor.

But when the Emperor received the letter, he asked his men which mountain is closest to heaven.  One replied the Great Mount of Suruga Province.  He ordered his men to take the letter to the base of the mountain to destroy it including the elixir as he didn’t want to live forever without Kaguya-hime.

And so the letter and elixir of immortality was burned.  Immortality in Japanese is “Fushi” and the legend is that the mountain, Mt. Fuji, is derived from this.

Kom_I commented on the video release.  It’s important to note that her comment about green and blue, in Japan, for example, a stoplight where we see green.  In Japan, they call it blue.  Confused?  You can read about it here.

Singer Kom_I said, “Blue is blue, ‘green and blue’ is what makes you feel green.  The Japanese “blue” jumps over the ocean turquoise blue and includes the green of chlorophyll. The beauty of the early summer bamboo groves in the Japanese archipelago when this EP was released is exactly ‘blue’.  The mountain has an eruption of life, all the buds sprouted, the season when every cell shouts to the world screaming of vivid colors shaken by the wind and is brought to life!  Life originated from the blue of the sea which continues to the spread blue to the land, but where will it head now?  What life will emerge next?   A Superman who appeared from the light, Kaguyahime may also be an alien?  It’s an alien theory as DNA spirals and life’s movements change shapes and continues on”.

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