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がっせん さるかに合戦
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1. The Monkey and the Crab (Japanese folktale); The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab; Saru Kani Gassen​Work of art, literature, music, etc. name
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2. The Crab and the Monkey​The Crab and the Monkey, also known as Monkey-Crab Battle or The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab, is a Japanese folktale. In the story, a sly monkey kills a crab, and is later killed in revenge by the crab's offspring. Retributive justice is the main theme of the story. Rev. David Thomson's translation, The Battle of the Monkey and the Crab, was published as the third volume of Hasegawa Takejirō‎'s Japanese Fairy Tale Series in 1885.
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猿蟹合戦 【さるかにがっせん】

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