空蝉の身をかへてける木のもとに

空蝉の身をかへてける木のもとに なほ人がらのなつかしきかな 空蝉って昔の人はこの世に生きる人のことを表していたんだって〜 Beneath the tree where the cicada has cast away its former form I still feel a tender longing for the person that remains in memory. In old Japanese literature the cicada Utsusemi was sometimes used as a metaphor for human beings living in this world The fleeting world of existence. The shell left behind could symbolize the body or the traces we leave behind While the cicada itself suggested the soul moving on to another state of existence