I've been treated to sightings of this uncommonly beautiful bird twice in Kamo City this week.
(photo: Wikipedia)
The common kingfisher is known as the "kawasemi" in Japanese, a compound of "kawa" (川- river) and "semi" (蝉- cicada). So, "river cicada" (川蝉). If someone sounds like a cricket, the person has a "cicada voice", or "semigoe" (蝉声). And leaving this world, sloughing off the mortal coil, is "sendatsu" (蝉脱), cicada shell.
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