Internet Archive Book: Even Monkeys Fall From Trees

Here is a fun collection of 100 Japanese proverbs: "Even Monkeys Fall From Trees" and Other Japanese Proverbs by David Galef.

There's also a foreword by Edward G. Seidensticker, a 20th-century scholar of Japanese literature.

Each of the 100 Japanese proverbs is presented in Japanese (including a romanized version also), plus an English translation and an illustration. The illustrations are by Jun Hashimoto; you can see how the proverbs are presented here: "You can't get clams from a field."

There's also an appendix with parallel English proverbs (as opposed to the literal translation that appears earlier), which can provide some different kinds of insight into the Japanese proverb.

"Even Monkeys Fall From Trees"

and Other Japanese Proverbs

by David Galef