This is a seasonal wording right for these five days, meaning a kind of cicadas very softly cry in the mornings and evenings. People think it is like an end-of-summer melancholy feeling.
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Responding to my request for a favorite character or word, a good friend of mine gave me “蜩 or Tanna japonensis, a kind of cicadas”.
He apparently quoted this character from the title of his favorite novel. While I was going over the letter, I found the passage from a poem that is believed to imply there should be lots of criticism when someone tries new methods.
Now I recall I heard an old story from my teacher, which goes; when he had his work framed in a Western style frame several decades ago, people let out a loud chorus of boos saying “it is so outrageous to deal a calligraphic work like a Western style painting!”
However, using Western style frames for calligraphic art is something absolutely normal at present.
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