slender bamboo

On-Yomi: ゾウ

Koohii stories:

1) [herman] 2-1-2009(22): Mr T uses a stick of slender bamboo to beat his taskmaster that he chased up into the tree.

2) [Megaqwerty] 22-6-2007(11): The wise sensei instructs Mr. T while they perch atop a tree: Oh, you must be supple and thin like the slender bamboo!

3) [blannk] 7-9-2009(3): Slender bamboo used to be obese bamboo, but because of simple 修 discipline (#1722 修) - whacks from a walking stick by the taskmaster and his assistant, the person primitive, was all it took - it has lost its earlier shape and become a fit and slender tree.

4) [mantixen] 28-7-2009(3): As I put my wood up inside the taskmaster, Haruhi beats her with a teaching staff made of slender bamboo.

5) [kapalama] 9-10-2011(2): 篠笛 , 篠突く雨 , 篠原ともえ* , slender bamboo (#2639 篠)ショウ, しの, ささ … Parts: 竹 , 亻, 丨, 攵, 木 (cf: 条 twig (#298 条), 條 … Note: This is a name variant of 笹 bamboo grass (#940 笹), read Shino(hara), … Story:Mr T and his son are using a Slender Bamboo stick to knock a Panda onto Hitler to knock him out of the tree. (And he is also encouraging Hitler to jump whispering shino, shino).