The Tale of Princess Kaguya

The Tale of Princess Kaguya, also called The Tale of the Moon Princess, is a Japanese folk story which I am a little bit mad over.

Story
The story starts with a bamboo cutter in a Japanese village. One day, he comes across an unconscious girl (named Kaguya) in the bamboo field and adopts her.

Several years later, Kaguya's beauty becomes well-known, which leads to people coming from all around Japan to ask to marry her. For each person, Kaguya gives an impossible request, saying that she will marry them if they fulfil it. These requests are to find the following items - a dragon's necklace, Buddha's stone bowl, a fire rat's robe, a swallow's cowrie shell and the jeweled branch on Hourai Mountain.

However, the five people who fell in love with Kaguya fail to complete these requests. One person died trying, one didn't attempt his request, and the other three tried to offer counterfeits to Kaguya.

Fictional Adaptions

 * Pokemon Sun and Moon: The creature Celesteela has been theorised to be referencing The Tale of Princess Kaguya.
 * Imperishable Night: This game as a whole is a reference to The Tale of Princess Kaguya, most notably through the game's antagonist, Kaguya Houraisan.
 * The Tale of Princess Kaguya: A movie adaption of the story.
 * Metroid Explorers: This fan game is a very loose parody of The Tale of Princess Kaguya.
 * KirbiMiroir's Treasure Trove of Professional Literature: The second story on this page, "The Tiki Trials", is a sort of re-adaption of The Tale of Princess Kaguya.