WKD - Minomushi bagworm

http://haikuandhappiness.blogspot.jp/2007/07/minomushi.html

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minomushi 蓑虫 "straw raincoat bug"
case moth, bagworm, basketworm
larva of Psychidae

Other Japanese names for the minomushi,
kigo for all autumn

child of the devil, oni no ko 鬼の子（おにのこ）
child abandoned by the devil, oni no sutego 鬼の捨子（おにのすてご）
child without relatives, minashigo みなし子（みなしご）
child without parents, oya nashi go 親無子（おやなしご）

woodcutting bug, kikori mushi 木樵虫（きこりむし）

the bagworm is making a sound, minomushi naku
蓑虫鳴く（みのむしなく）


The sound is a bit like "chii chii" (father, father), hence people of old thought a child was abandoned by the demons and cried.

Sei Shonagon has already written about this "child of the devil", which was left by its parents and is crying out for hunger . . .




みのむしや秋ひだるしと鳴なめり
minomushi ya aki hidarushi to naku nameri

this devil bagworm !
it seems to call out :
"I am hungry in autumn"

. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 - (1715-1783) .

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