Sep 23, 2007

"Mushi no Ne"

I found this cricket in the garden of my house. It is called "Enma-koorogi"(えんまこおろぎ). It chirps like this, "Kolo-kolo-kolo-li-i-i-n"(at least, it sounds like this to Japanese). In this season, I fall in sleep every night listening to this sound because I live in a countryside.

In Japan, some people raise a kind of cricket "Suzu-mushi"(鈴虫) and enjoy its sound.

I heard that Japanese people use a different part of their brain to listen to the sounds made by insects from a part that Westerners use. So, it sounds like a language, a song or a comfortable sound to Japanese, but only a noise or a noisy sound to Westerners.

I don't know that this is fact, or not, but it is very interesting, I think.

How do you feel "Mushi no Ne"(虫の音), comfortable or not?

P.S.
I have placed "Club Tropicana" by Wham at "My favorite song". You can listen to sounds made by a kind of "koorogi" before the sing starts.

Now. I remeber that there is a well-known children's song whose subject is "Mushi no Ne" in Japan. You can listen to it, here.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

in italy, "mushi no ne" is called "カント ディ インセッティ(canto di insetti: song of insects)".
i feel it beautiful (but sometimes noisy...).

ジョン said...

I don't mind the sound of insects at all. It makes my surroundings feel more natural, I guess you could say. (Whoa, Wham! That takes me back! I don't know this song, though.)

ジョン said...

Thanks for the link to the song, but I couldn't find a way to make it play.

bikenglish said...

To jonathan san!

I am sorry that you could not listen to it. Why? When my computer connects the website, the song starts automatically. I think that your computers's software like "javasprict" does not do effect from some reason.

ジョン said...

やっと聞くことができましたよ。かわいい歌ですね。ハードドライブにセーブしました。ありがとう!

Anonymous said...

「虫の声」って歌、可愛いね。
聞いているうちに少し覚えたよ(笑)。