蒟蒻問答

Reading
こんにゃくもんどう
English
a completely unexpected answer to one's question
Notes
a konjac蒟蒻 answer問答, from a skit where a konjac vendor is asked a Zen riddle by a traveling monk. The vendor is completely stumped and doesn't say a word, but the monk interprets this as the vendor expressing the Buddhist concept of 無(nothingness) and is impressed
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