have brought you up, child of mine, to where you stand at my height.  What people are they who would presume to come to get you?  Can you imagine I would actually allow it?’  Saying ‘I’ll die first!’, the way he wept and wailed indicated it was all very hard to bear.  What Kaguya-hime then said was ‘I am a person of the Moon Capital, and have a father and mother.  Although I came here from that land believing it to be for a short time,