…the point of this kind of thing begins to come a little clearer, and it's called the story of tipping over the pitcher. Hyakujo wished to send a monk to open a new monastery. He told his pupils that whoever answered a question most ably would be…

…no one can call it a wooden shoe. But isan, the cooking monk, tipped over the pitcher with his foot and went out. Hyakujo smiled and said: the chief monk loses. And isan became the master of the new monastery. Uman comments. Isan was brave enough, but…