When do you feel that spring has come?
It is fine and warm today like when spring has come. This morning I heard uguisu (鶯), Japanese Bush Warbler were singing. Uguisu has many names. They are haru dori(春鳥): spring bird, haru tsuge dori (春告鳥): spring-announcing bird, hana mi dori(花見鳥): spring-flower-viewing bird, uta yomi dori(歌詠鳥): poem-reading bird, kyo yomi dori(経読鳥): sutra-reading bird and so on.
Its call is heard as "ホーホケキョ(ho-hokekyo)" which is a phrase from the lotus sutra. It is so beautiful. Only the male birds sing like that.
Uguisu is one of three Japanese singing birds(日本三鳴鳥：nihon san mei cho) Other two are koma dori(コマドリ),Japanese robin and ooruri (オオルリ), Blue-and-White Flycatcher .
Uguisu has a very beautiful voice, therefore a female announcer at Japanese baseball games and a woman employed to make public announcements for politicians' election campaign are called uguisu jo(ウグイス嬢), Miss Uguisu.
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