Thursday, November 02, 2006

Episode 43 - Monkey business


- Specifically for Ying

I purchased this toy from Rishiri, Hokkaido, Japan.

Can you see a monkey standing proudly on the top of a crab?

The characters come from a Japanese folklore "The monkey, the crab, and the persimmon-seed". In the original tale, a greedy monkey used tricks to cheat a crab out of its food. The children of the crab, with the assistance of their friends, revenged.

The revenge can be accomplished easily. What you need to do is to pull the red string:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Who is the crab? lol