Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
modernization was destroying some of the good things in traditional
Japanese culture.
ANTS
(1) Cicadas.
[1] An interesting fact in this connection is that the Japanese word
for ant, _ari_, is represented by an ideograph formed of the character
for “insect” combined with the character signifying “moral rectitude,”
“propriety” (_giri_). So the Chinese character actually means “The
Propriety-Insect.”