The three wise monkeys at the Tōshō-gū shrine in Nikkō, Japan Representation of Mahatma Gandhi's smaller statue of the three monkeys Bapu (Mizaru), Ketan (Kikazaru) and Bandar (Iwazaru), at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India The three wise monkeys are a Japanese pictorial maxim, embodying the proverbial principle "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".[1] The three monkeys are M