One of the quintessential Japanese summer sounds is the cicada chorus coming from the greenery of the local park on a hot, humid day. Ever wondered what the creatures that make that min min sound look like? I got close enough to a cicada (semi 蝉) to find out that they’re not exactly tiny. Nor… Continue reading The min min sound of summer
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The Sound Princess
This is the Otohime (音姫), literally translated into English as the Sound Princess. As a male, this is something that I’ve sometimes heard about, but rarely come across. The Sound Princess inhabits women’s bathrooms in Japan, or in the case of a cafe I went to on the weekend, the unisex bathroom.