The Monkey: Legends

For the Year of the Monkey in 1920 Minakata Kumagusu wrote on the monkey's names and nature, its likeness to man, its role in folk custom, in Buddhist tales and in shrine cults, with detours into apes, taboo words, stage monkeys and the great Indian monkey epics.

This edition is a complete, unabridged New English Translation made directly from the Japanese, with endnotes identifying sources, persons and period terms.

AI-assisted translation.