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The three wise monkeys at the Tōshō-gū shrine in Nikkō, Japan. The three wise monkeys are a Japanese pictorial maxim, embodying the proverbial principle "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil". [1] The three monkeys are Mizaru (見ざる), "does not see", covering his eyes; Kikazaru (聞かざる), "does not hear", covering his ears
The sculpture is a version of the Japanese pictorial maxim of the three wise monkeys, embodying the proverbial principle "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil". [18] Research revealed that it had been intended to include the Three Wise Monkeys as a central motif when the pavilion was designed in the 1930s.
Gandhi's Three Monkeys is a series of sculptures created in 2008 by Indian artist Subodh Gupta that portrays three heads in different types of military headgear. The sculptures recall a visual metaphor from India's famous champion of peace, Mahatma Gandhi, of the "Three wise monkeys", representing the principle "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".
The stable of the shrine's sacred horses bears a carving of the three wise monkeys, who hear, speak and see no evil, a traditional symbol in Japanese culture that is derived from a quote in the Analects. The original five-storey pagoda was donated by a daimyō in 1650, but it was burned down during a fire, and was rebuilt in 1818. Each storey ...
Orange City is about a 60-mile drive from Silver Spring State Park, where a band of rhesus macaque monkeys has lived since the 1930s, when some were released by a local tour boat operator.
Garden City Park is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located in the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, on Long Island. It's a suburb of New York City , located approximately 20 miles (32 km) from Midtown Manhattan .
The sanzaru (三猿 "three monkeys") or English "Three Wise Monkeys" is a widely known example of monkeys in traditional Japanese culture. Their names are a pun between saru or vocalized zaru "monkey" and archaic -zaru "a negative verb conjugation": mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru (見ざる, 聞かざる, 言わざる, lit. "don't see, don't hear ...
An Oshkosh Daily Northwestern photo from Aug. 21, 1953, of a boy visiting the monkey cage at Menominee Park and a March 14, 1963, Northwestern article on a new breed of monkeys coming to the park ...