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.
even if a leaf landed on his face 
or a bird made a nest in his hair.
mesmo se uma folha caísse em seu rosto ou
um pássaro fizesse um ninho em seu cabelo.