Following the advice of a Chinese doctor, a character with this livelihood named Zenchi Naigu boils and stomps on a body part in an attempt to shrink it.
In the prologue to a story about one of these men, a government official comes to a teahouse in Uji to collect amusing anecdotes to fill a storybook. Another of these men seizes a stick from a boy chasing a dog and beats him with it, only to realize that the stick is the slat with which the boy held the title object in place. People from all over Japan flock to a pond where one of these men named E'in had mischievously erected a sign suggesting that a (*) dragon will ascend to heaven. In "Within a Grove," a character with this livelihood describes seeing the murdered man armed and on horseback with his wife as the second witness to testify, following the woodcutter. Following the advice of a Chinese doctor, a character with this livelihood named Zenchi Naigu boils and stomps on a body part in an attempt to shrink it. For 10 points, in stories such as "The Nose," Ryunosuke Akutagawa mocked the piety of people of what livelihood?
In the prologue to a story about one of these men, a government official comes to a teahouse in Uji to collect amusing anecdotes to fill a storybook.
Buddhist monks [or priests]