. Exotics and retrospectives. e insect on account of its large staring eyes. Images ofKing Emma are always made with very big and awful eyes. 72 Exotics and Retrospectives century. The following lines, by an unknownpoet, which contain this mention, are thereforeconsiderably more than eleven hundred yearsold: - Niwa-kusa niMurasame furite Korogi noNaku oto kikebaAki tsukinikeri. 3•a [ Showers have A %* sprinkled the gar-den-grass. Hear-ing the sound of the crying of thekorogi, I knowthat the autumn has come.] Emma-korogi. Kutsuwamushi. There are several varieties of this extraordinarycreature,
. Exotics and retrospectives. e insect on account of its large staring eyes. Images ofKing Emma are always made with very big and awful eyes. 72 Exotics and Retrospectives century. The following lines, by an unknownpoet, which contain this mention, are thereforeconsiderably more than eleven hundred yearsold: - Niwa-kusa niMurasame furite Korogi noNaku oto kikebaAki tsukinikeri. 3•a [ Showers have A %* sprinkled the gar-den-grass. Hear-ing the sound of the crying of thekorogi, I knowthat the autumn has come.] Emma-korogi. Kutsuwamushi. There are several varieties of this extraordinarycreature, — also called onomatopoetically gatcba-gatcha, — which is most provokingly described indictionaries as a kind of noisy cricket ! Thevariety commonly sold in Tokyo has a green Insect-Musicians 73 back, and a yellowish-white abdomen; but thereare also brown and reddish varieties. The hut-suwamusbi is difficult to capture, but easy tobreed. As the tsuku-tsuhu-bosbi is the mostwonderful musician among the sun-loving cicadas. KUTSUWAMUSHI (natural si{e). or semi, so the kutsuwamusbi is the most won-derful of night-crickets. It owes its name, whichmeans The Bridle-bit-Insect, to its noise, whichresembles the jingling and ringing of the old-fashioned Japanese bridle-bit (kutsuwa). But 74 Exotics and Retrospectives the sound is really much louder and much morecomplicated than ever was the jingling of a singlekutsuwa; and the accuracy of the comparison isnot easily discerned while the creature is stormingbeside you. Without the evidence of ones owneyes, it were hard to believe that so small a lifecould make so prodigious a noise. Certainlythe vibratory apparatus in this insect must be verycomplicated. The sound begins with a thin sharpwhizzing, as of leaking steam, and slowly strength-ens ; — then to the whizzing is suddenly addeda quick dry clatter, as of castanets; — and then,as the whole machinery rushes into operation,you hear, high above the whizzing and the clatter,a tor
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