The best places to hear the _kirigirisu_ were:--

(8) Sagano, in Yamashiro;

(9) Takeda-no-Sato, in Yamashiro;

(10) Tatsuta-yama, in Yamato;

(11) Ono-no-Shinowara, in Ōmi.

* * * * *

Afterwards, when the breeding and sale of singing-insects became a

lucrative industry, the custom of going into the country to hear them

gradually went out of fashion. But even to-day city-dwellers, when

giving a party, will sometimes place cages of singing-insects among the

garden-shrubbery, so that the guests may enjoy not only the music of the

little creatures, but also those memories or sensations of rural peace

which such music evokes.

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