猿猴捉月
Reading
えんこうそくげつ
English
if you let yourself by driven by greed, it will destroy you
Notes
a monkey猿猴 saw the moon月 reflected in a pond and decided it must take捉 it for its own. It leaned further and further down from its branch, until the branch snapped, the monkey fell in the water, and ultimately drowned
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