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Insect Musicians & Cricket Champions:

A Cultural History of Singing Insects in China and Japan
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China Books, 1996 - Social Science - 72 pages
"This fascinating book examines the rich social history between insects and humans in myth, art, literature, and science in East Asian society."
  

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Contents

The Natural History of Crickets l
1
Part
49
Appendix
71
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

20th century antique autumn bamboo Beijing bell-insect bred breeders breeding called carved catch crickets Cheng China Chinese chirping sound Chirrup Chuzo cicada clay creature crick Cricket Champions cricket fighting decorated diandi dynasty eggs Emma-korogi Emperor entomologist fanciers female fighting crickets flowers gourd cages gourd insect cage grass grasshoppers Gryllidae hataori hatched hear hearth Homoeogryllus IMAGE ODIER-DANEE HAZAMA Insect-Musicians insect-seller insect-voices ivory Japan Japanese poems jars jin zhong kanetataki kantan katydids Kia Se-tao kin-hibari kirigirisu Kiriyama Kokinshu korogi kuro-hibari kutsuwamushi Lafcadio Hearn ling male cricket matsumushi mengxin Ming dynasty Moulded gourd insect Museum of Natural musical insects musicians Natural History night onomatopoet Orthoptera painting insects Peking period pets pinyin placed Plate poets popular sasel shape silk SINGING INSECTS singing-insects song species Stridulate suzumushi tickler Tokyo tree crickets Tsuzure umaoi varieties voice wing-covers wings Wood top Yamashiro Yamato-suzu Yasubei Yedo zhong golden bell ziguan

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TitleInsect Musicians & Cricket Champions: A Cultural History of Singing Insects in China and Japan
AuthorLisa G. Ryan
Editionillustrated
PublisherChina Books, 1996
ISBN0835125769, 9780835125765
Length72 pages
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