A man finds an expensive bowl being used as a cat dish and schemes to get it.  A lazy man is sent to the capital to work.  A monkey and a toad go to Ise, but the monkey does all the work.
Each piece of bamboo has knots 
in it that are together.
Nudo
Nudo
Cada pedaço de bambu tem um nó
que o liga a outro pedaço.