suzumushi

Updated: July 19, 2025

The country stillness is broken only by the shrilling of the semi and the tintinnabulation of that strange little insect, the suzumushi, whose calling sounds just like the tinkling of the tiny bells which are shaken by the miko in her sacred dance. I remained nearly eight days at Hishi-ura on the occasion of my second visit there, but only three at Urago.

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