◆驢に騎りて、驢を覓む Ro ni norite ro wo motomu.
- 解釈：求めている物が直ぐ側にあるのに、遠くに求める愚かさのたとえ。
- Literal：It rides on a donkey and asks for a donkey.
- Interpretation：It is the foolishness for which it asks in the distance although the thing for which it is asking is immediately in a side.
- 類義：牛に騎って牛を覓む。負うた子を三方に探す。背中の子を三年探す。