The buzz of cicadas is heard from early morning till mid night everywhere in Tokyo. We feel we are in a shower of cicada sounds at this season.
I visited Hanegi Park in Setagaya Ward to through myself into the “shower of sound”. It was a hot sunny day. The sky was blue.
The park has deep woods. Various kinds of cicadas, including brown cicada and min-min zemi, were making sounds. It was noisy, but I enjoyed it.
The cicada spends years as a larva in the ground, then comes up over the ground and becomes adult. It can live only a few days as an adult cicada.
I found some cicadas staying in the tree. They were making sound with all their efforts (to find their partners).
There were many small holes around trees. They were where the cicada larvae came up from the ground. Many empty shells were sticking in the large leaves of tulip trees.
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