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A Japanese urban legend (日本の都市伝説, Nihon no toshi densetsu) is a story in Japanese folklore which is circulated as true. These urban legends are characterized by originating in or being popularized throughout the country of Japan.
The saying in Japanese is mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru (見ざる, 聞かざる, 言わざる) "see not, hear not, speak not", where the -zaru is a negative conjugation on the three verbs, matching zaru, the rendaku form of saru (猿) "monkey" used in compounds. Thus the saying (which does not include any specific reference to "evil") can also be ...
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Toshi (トシ), a character in the film Moon Child; Toshi Tsukikage (月影 トシ), a character in the anime series Soar High! Isami; Toshi Yoshida (トシ・ヨシダ), a character in the television series American Dad!
Japanese anthropologist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney explains the idiom saru wa ke ga sanbon tarinai (猿は毛が三本足りない, "a monkey is [a human] minus three pieces of hair"): "The literal meaning of this saying is that the monkey is a lowly animal trying to be a human and therefore is to be laughed at. [1]
Transliteration: "Kuzuryū densetsu" (Japanese: 九頭竜伝説) An old man saves a broken swallow, who rewards him with a magic watermelon seed; a man encounters a terrifying ghost at a haunted stream (repeat from episode 18), and a traveling priest visits a village where an evil dragon is devouring virgin sacrifices.
Yōkai (妖怪, "strange apparition") are a class of supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore.The kanji representation of the word yōkai comprises two characters that both mean "suspicious, doubtful", [1] and while the Japanese name is simply the Japanese transliteration or pronunciation of the Chinese term yaoguai (which designates similarly strange creatures), some Japanese ...
Saru Kani Gassen Emaki, a rare emakimono of this folktale in the Edo period. The Crab and the Monkey, also known as Monkey-Crab Battle (猿かに合戦, saru kani gassen) or The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab, is a Japanese folktale. In the story, a sly monkey kills a crab, and is later killed in revenge by the crab's offspring.