The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon-Child

Yei Theodora Ozaki (1871 – 1932) was an early 20th-century translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales. She was the daughter of Baron Ozaki, one of the first Japanese men to study in the West. Her parents separated after five years of marriage, and Yei was sent to live in Japan with her father. Later she refused an arranged marriage, left her father's house, and became a teacher and secretary to earn money. She traveled back and forth between Japan and Europe, as her employment and family duties took her.

The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon Child is a Japanese fairy tale, collected and translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki. The story is about and old man, who was making his living by cutting bamboo. And a great sadness slowly consumed him, for he had no children. But the gods some why favored him and a divine providence was about to change his life completely.