his message would reach the distant princess. They are also ordered to burn the elixir of immortality, as the Emperor does not wish to live for eternity without being able to see her. Legend has it that the word for , became the name of the mountain, Mount Fuji. It is also said that the kanji for the mountain, which translate literally to , are derived from the Emperor's army ascending the slopes to carry out his order. It is said that the smoke from the burning still rises to this day. (In the past, Mount Fuji was a much more active volcano and therefore produced more smoke.) Literary connections Elements of the tale were drawn from earlier stories. The protagonist Taketori no Okina appears in the earlier poetry collection (; poem #3791). In it, he meets a group of women and recites a poem to them. This indicates that there previously existed an image or tale revolving around a bamboo cutter and celestial or mystical women. A similar retelling of the tale appears in the 12th century (volume 31, chapter 33), although the relationship between these texts is debated. In 1957, (), a Chinese book of Tibetan tales, was published. In the early 1970s, Japanese literary researchers became aware that (), one of the tales in the book, had certain similarities with The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Initially, many researchers believed to be related to Tale of Bamboo Cutter, although some were skeptical. In the 1980s, studies showed that the relationship between these stories was not as simple as initially thought. Okutsu provides an extensive review of the research, and notes that the book was intended to be for children, and as such, the editor took some liberties in adapting the tales. No other compilation of Tibetan tales contains the story. A Tibetan-born person wrote that he did not know the story. A researcher went to Sichuan and found that, apart from those who had already read , local researchers in Chengdu did not know the story. Several Tibetan sources in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture did not know the story either. The philological consensus is that the author of the 1957 book purposefully copied The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Chang'e The Chinese legend of Chang'e can be traced to the second century BCE. According to the main telling of the legend, a named Chang'e came