Higurashi Japanese Sculptures

#Japanese #Sculptures of Higurashi

Here's an actual #higurashi cicada and heres some 3d sculptures

I hope you've enjoyed this medley

Please check the archives for more collections of images based on themes also poetry translations!

What are Higurashi ?

#higurashi #japanesecicada #cicada  #utamaro #print #kachoga

SO WHAT IS A HIGURASHI
and how does it differ from #semi

The usual word for Cicada is Semi but there is another cicada species called #higurashi

This is Tanna Japonensis the cicada that sings at dawn or dusk or when the sky is overcast.
Its numbers and song peak in mid October. As well as featuring in various waka and haiku it is also the subject of one of Utamaro's Insects and Flowers series published to illustrate a book:

Although mentioned in many poems it doesn't seem to have been as popular as a theme for visual arts apart from some netsuke. I was surprised to find so few prints and this is the best of them.

Utamaro is best known for bijin beautiful women prints and he brings the same elegant style  to this depiction of plants and insects. 

Hagi no hana Waka

From the Man'yo shu MYS X:223

*hagi #waka #manyoshu

Hagi no hana            hagi flowers 

sakitaru nobe ni           blooming continously spreading   

Higurashi no                   while higurashi cicadas 

Naku naru naheni                are singing together with 

Aki no kaze fuku          the wind of autumn blowing 

word for word hagi = bush clover of flowers verb saku = taru suffix nobe spreading extending higurahi a kind of cicada that sings early morning or evening or when its overcast and cloudy
naku sing naru being naheni adverb aki autumn kaze wind fuku verb again