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Kaguya

OriginJapanese
Meaning"shining"
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About Kaguya

Kaguya-hime no Monogatari, "The Tale of Princess Kaguya," is a Japanese folk story, also called "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter." In the story, a bamboo cutter finds a baby girl from the moon nestled in a glowing bamboo stalk. Her name is Kaguya, meaning "shining."

Kaguya is rarely used as a given name in Japan, but it is often used in pop culture. Japan's second spacecraft to orbit the moon is called Kaguya in Japan.

Pronounced kah-GOO-yuh.

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