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kani かに / 蟹 crab art motives
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. kokeshi こけし wooden dolls .
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. dorei どれい【土鈴】 clay bells .
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. nuigurumi 縫いぐるみ stuffed dolls .
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. ema 絵馬 votive tablets .
From Taga Shrine 多賀神社 - Tokoname 常滑市苅屋洞ノ脇
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. kani botan, kani-botan 蟹牡丹 crab and peony - kamon 家紋 crest .
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sarukani, saru kani gassen さるかに合戦 "Monkey Crab Battle"
The Crab and the Monkey
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. Retributive justice is the main theme of the story.
Rev. David Thomson's translation,
The Battle of the Monkey and the Crab, was published as the third volume of Hasegawa Takejirō's Japanese Fairy Tale Series in 1885. Andrew Lang included a somewhat bowdlerized version in
The Crimson Fairy Book (1903) and Yei Theodora Ozaki included it in her
Japanese Fairy Tales (1908).
- - - Synopsis
While out walking, a crab finds a rice ball. A sly monkey persuades the crab to trade the rice ball for a persimmon seed. The crab is at first upset, but when she plants and tends the seed a tree grows that supplies abundant fruit. The monkey agrees to climb the tree to pick the fruit for the crab, but gorges himself on the fruit rather than sharing it with the crab. When the crab protests, the monkey hurls hard, unripe fruit at her. The shock of being attacked causes the crab to give birth just before she dies.
The crab's children seek revenge on the monkey. With the help of several allies—a chestnut, an usu, a bee, and a cow pie—they go to the monkey's house. The chestnut hides himself on the monkey's hearth, the bee in the water pail, the cow pie on the dirt floor, and the usu on the roof. When the monkey returns home he tries to warm himself on the hearth, but the chestnut strikes the monkey so that he burns himself. When the monkey tries to cool his burns at the water bucket, the bee stings him. When the startled monkey tries to run out of the house, the cow pie moves and trips him and the usu falls from the roof, killing the monkey.
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The crab's children seek revenge with the help of an usu, a snake, a bee, arame (kelp), and a kitchen knife.
The name of the story, the list of allies, and the details of the attacks vary in different parts of Japan. For example, in Kansai one of the allies is a quantity of oil. In a version of the story published in a Japanese textbook in 1887, an egg appears in place of the chestnut and a piece of kelp replaces the cowpie. The egg attacks the monkey by exploding; the kelp slips from under his foot.
In the version of the story published by Andrew Lang, the crab gathers the unripe fruit and is not killed, but the monkey leaves her for dead.
Modern versions of the story often tone down the violence. The title "The Crab and the Monkey" or "The Story of the Monkey and the Crab" similarly reduce the violence apparent in the older "Monkey-Crab Battle" name.
Twentieth-century Japanese novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa wrote a short story based on the folktale in which, after avenging their mother's death by attacking the monkey, the crab children are arrested and face the death penalty.
In a completely different version of the story, when the monkey climbs the tree and takes all the persimmons the crab advises him to hang his basket of fruit from a branch. When the monkey hangs his basket on a thin branch, the branch breaks and the basket of fruit falls. The crab quickly carries the fruit off and crawls down a hole. The monkey decides to defecate on the crab, and sticks his buttocks down the hole. The crab quickly shaves the monkey's bottom, which is why to this day monkeys have hairless bottoms and hair grows on crabs' claws.
Similar stories involving a crab and a monkey, or a monkey and a toad, or other creatures seeking vengeance are found in China, Korea, and Mongolia, and among the Ainu.
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さるかに合戦 clay bell
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. otogibanashi dorei おとぎ話の土鈴
clay bells with motives of legends .
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kani 蟹 patterns on various items
Oribe Plate 織部お皿
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- ABC - List of crabs art motives from the Prefectures
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The crab sheds its cast many times and is thus a symbol of long life and endless possibilities.
It spits out bubbles -
buku buku - and thus helps to get money bubbeling in the purse.
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. tsurushibina, tsurushi bina つるし雛 / 吊るし雛 small hanging hina dolls .
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Crab Toys
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