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Three wise monkeys

The three wise monkeys (三猿, San'en; , lit. 'three monkeys') are a Japanese pictorial maxim, embodying the proverbial principle "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." The three monkeys are

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related to Origin · 21
Three wise monkeys → Analects, BCE, China, Chinese, Conduct, Confucius, Confucius’s Code, Hidari Jingoro, In Chinese, It, Japan, Look, Nara Period, Nikkō, Tendai Buddhist, The, There, Those, Tōshō-gū, Tōshō-gū Shrine
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Three wise monkeys → Ahmedabad, Asia, Bandar, Bapu, Gandhi, Gandhi's, Gandhi's Three Monkeys, Gujarat, Japanese, Keisai Eisen, Ketan, Mahatma Gandhi's, Nichidatsu Fujii, Sabarmati Ashram, Subodh Gupta, The, They, Today
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Three wise monkeys → Ambiguity, America's Popular Proverbs, Archer Taylor, Audi, Folklore, Gregory, ISBN, New York, No, On, Random House, Random House Dictionary, Sayings, Smith, Tace, Titelman, Vidi, Vol
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Three wise monkeys → Analects, Confucius, In, Sezaru, Shizaru, Sometimes, The, Yet

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Three wise monkeysrelated to Cultural influencesNichidatsu Fujii0.60section
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Three wise monkeysrelated to Cultural influencesSabarmati Ashram0.60section

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