MonkeyJump/Etymology

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Why is it called the monkey jump?

Shirae Haruhiko, in his book 200 Endgame Problems, tells a little story.

Apparently the shape of the monkey jump is reminiscent of the [ext] crape myrtle tree. The Japanese name for crape myrtle is sarusuberi, written in kanji as 百日紅. However, sarusuberi can also be written with the characters 猿滑り, where 猿 (saru) means "monkey" and 滑り (suberi) means slide--hence "monkey jump".


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