The Tale of The Bamboo Cutter And The Moon Child: A Japanese Proto Sci-Fi tale From a Thousand Years Ago

One of the first recorded alien visitor stories, from Japan in around 900 AD. Taken from the translation by Yei Theodora Ozaki. Includes a very early version of an interplanetary society.
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Japanese: ¿¿¿¿, Hepburn: Taketori Monogatari) is a monogatari (fictional prose narrative) containing elements of Japanese folklore. Written by an unknown author in the late 9th or early 10th century during the Heian period, it is considered the oldest surviving work in the mon...