The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
The 10th-century Japanese narrative, "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter" (), can be considered an early example of proto-science fiction. The protagonist of the story, , is a princess from the Moon who is sent to Earth for safety during a celestial war, and is found and raised by a bamboo cutter. She is later taken back to her extraterrestrial family in an illustrated depiction of a disc-shaped flying object similar to a flying saucer.