Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn
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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." |
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