How did ancient Japanese people know that the Moon was a celestial body like Earth?
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is an ancient Japanese fairy tale known to almost
everyone in Japan. The Tale of Genji, written approximately 1,000 years ago, mentioned
that the first fairy tale ever told was about an old bamboo cutter. However, it is rather sur-
prising that the ancient Japanese believed that there was a city on the Moon where people
lived.
For a long time, mankind believed that the universe was a small amount of space that
wrapped around the world in which they lived. Maps from ancient times ...
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