British site about Japanese 1970’s TV show “Monkey” ( \u00e8\u00a5\u00bf\u00e9\u0081\u0160\u00e8\u00a8\u02dc = \u00e3\u0081\u2022\u00e3\u0081\u201e\u00e3\u201a\u2020\u00e3\u0081\u2020\u00e3\u0081\u008d = saiyuuki<\/i>) which I would bet spawned some of the flying-monkey imagery in Dragon Ball Z.<\/p>\n
\nMonkey<\/i> was based on the Chinese story Hsi Yu Chi<\/i> (= Journey to the West), which not coincidentally is spelled with the same characters ( \u00e8\u00a5\u00bf\u00e9\u0081\u0160\u00e8\u00a8\u02dc ). I’m sure you could trace the monkey character back to the Hindu god Hanuman. British site about Japanese 1970’s TV show “Monkey” ( \u00e8\u00a5\u00bf\u00e9\u0081\u0160\u00e8\u00a8\u02dc = \u00e3\u0081\u2022\u00e3\u0081\u201e\u00e3\u201a\u2020\u00e3\u0081\u2020\u00e3\u0081\u008d = saiyuuki) which I would bet spawned some of the flying-monkey imagery in Dragon Ball Z. Monkey was based on the Chinese story Hsi Yu Chi (= Journey to the West), which not coincidentally is spelled with the same characters ( \u00e8\u00a5\u00bf\u00e9\u0081\u0160\u00e8\u00a8\u02dc ). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Web link of note: Monkey Magic (UK)<\/a>
\n(At http:\/\/www.monkeymania.co.uk\/monkeymagic\/)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"