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.
This man would spend his days doing nothing,
Aunque se le pegara una hoja en la cara
 o las aves le hicieran un nido
Aunque se le pegara una hoja en la cara o 
los pájaros hicieran nidos en su cabeza,
Esse homem passava seus
dias sem fazer nada,