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[Yamagata Prefecture] What is Monkey Jizo? Introducing the folk tale of how people got lucky by pretending to be Jizo statues.
"Monkey Jizo", which was introduced in Yamagata and broadcast in the manga Nihon Mukashibanashi in January 1976, is an ancient story that is widely passed down in Yamaguchi, Saitama, and Niigata prefectures.