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Tag: Son Goku

Musings VII: On Monkeys in Japanese Culture.

Posted on October 2, 2016July 11, 2021 by Jasmin

Story: Three in the Morning, Four in the Evening. In the times of the Song Dynasty[i] in China lived a man they called Sokō, which means monkey trainer. He loved monkeys and reared a whole horde of them at his house. Sokō understood the monkey’s minds quite well, and likewise the monkeys understood their master….

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