Princess

Princess

hime, ki

The classic word “hime” means princess. We don’t call modern princesses “hime.” Hime exists only in history and fairy tales. Heroines in fairy tales are called hime. Snow White is “Shira yuki hime.” Little Mermaid is “Nin gyohime.”

Kaguyahime, a heroine, was in “taketori mono gatari,” a Japanese fairy tale. This is my considerably abridged edition of the story. A long time ago, there was a couple who had no child. The husband was cutting bamboo trees for living. One day he found two shining bamboo trees. When he cut one of the trees, he found a lot of gold in it. There was a baby girl in the other one. They decided to raise the girl and named her Kaguya. She grew up and became a beautiful woman. Her beauty gained a great reputation and many men visited the parents and proposed marriage to her. She told them she would accept if her best wish was fulfilled. Nobody could realize her hope and she confessed that she had to go back to the moon. I may not be right to call it a fairy tale. The story finishes as happily as other fairy tales.

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1. Draw the rotated chevron shape.
2. Draw the sweeping stroke.
3. Draw the quasi-horizontal sweeping stroke from the left.
4. Draw the longest vertical stroke.
5. Draw the horizontal stroke on the top.
6. Draw the short vertical stroke touching the previous stroke.
7. Draw the hook.
8. Draw the horizontal stroke shaping the rectangle in the middle.
9. Draw the short vertical stroke touching the previous stroke.
10. Draw the horizontal stroke at the bottom.