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This week in honor of the #1 city at the time of recording (and because maybe she's homesick), Ariel's reading the (completely safe) Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (竹取物語), otherwise known as The Tale of Princess Kaguya (かぐや姫の物語).
The oldest manuscript for this story, which starts with an old man finding a three inch tall girl in a stalk of bamboo, is from the 15th century. The story itself, though, supposedly dates back as far as the 10th, and is considered the oldest known Japanese prose narrative.
This is one of the most well known Japanese fairytales, and while many translations and variants exist, the version read here is from Japanese Fairy Tales, compiled and published by Yei Theodora Ozaki in 1903, and found on Project Gutenberg.

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