During the evenings usually the only light on in the house is a small lamp above my desk.
It tends to attract all kinds of bugs.
The other night this guy came and hung around for a while and didn't mind me poking a camera lens at him/her.
Its a Kirigirisu, a Singing Grasshopper.
During the Edo period they were sold in small bamboo cages as pets, something that still goes on today.
Ther are a lot of bugs in Japan, so its no surprise that they are still collected by boys.
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Lovely post, lovely bug: in the good old days of my childhood I was used to see singing crickets sold in little wooden cages here in Florence too but they were only half beautiful than your Kirigirisu. All the best from the not-so-warm mid-august Italian evening.
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