Aidan Doyle » Monkeys http://www.aidandoyle.net The Revolution Will Not Be Anthologised Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:26:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 WorldCon http://www.aidandoyle.net/2010/09/02/worldcon/ http://www.aidandoyle.net/2010/09/02/worldcon/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:21:54 +0000 Aidan http://www.aidandoyle.net/?p=1474 WorldCon starts today…

The monkeys are restless…

Japanese police hunt rogue monkey gang

]]> http://www.aidandoyle.net/2010/09/02/worldcon/feed/ 0 Mr. Nine and the Gentleman Ghost http://www.aidandoyle.net/2010/09/01/mr-nine-and-the-gentleman-ghost/ http://www.aidandoyle.net/2010/09/01/mr-nine-and-the-gentleman-ghost/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:40:08 +0000 Aidan http://www.aidandoyle.net/?p=1465 As a monkey special – my story featuring a monkey-hunting puppet, Mr. Nine and the Gentleman Ghost has just been published at Weird Tales.

http://weirdtales.net/wordpress/2010/08/30/mr-nine-and-the-gentleman-ghost/

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When I was a kid, one of my favorite TV shows was Monkey.

It was a Japanese TV series based on Chinese legends that was dubbed into English by the BBC.

The series is based on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West.  The Monkey king (Sun Wukong in the Chinese version) helps a Buddhist priest on his journey to recover some sacred scrolls.  In Japan the series is known as Saiyuki.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iUMWy4hqAg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iUMWy4hqAg
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The adventures of Mojo the helper monkey…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHxOiFxNDzw

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At a shrine in Nikko (a couple of hours north of Tokyo) is a carving of the three wise monkeys.

The origin of the original expression is unsure, but it might have come from China.  There are several different interpretations of the meanings of the monkeys, but in Japanese they have an extra meaning that is lost in English.

The monkeys are known as Mizaru (Do not see) Kikazaru (Do not hear) and Iwazaru (Do not speak).

The words are a pun because the negative form of the verb is represented by zaru and the Japanese word for monkey is saru.

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