Night Thrush - Night Thrush

Japanese: オニツグミ - おにつぐみ
Night Thrush - Night Thrush

…(1) Dialect of the Brown Thrush. Also called Nui, Nuetsugumi, Nuedori, Onitsugumi, Choman, etc., it has been considered an ominous and spooky bird since ancient times because it cries gloomily at night from around the time the snow melts to around May or June. In the first volume of the Manyoshu, it is sung, “…the unlucky thing is in pain, the young bird is crying out in vain…” and in the Tsutsumi Chunagon Monogatari, it is written, “I wonder if the song of the Nue is a cursed thing.” …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Japanese Thrush" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…(1)トラツグミの方言。ヌイ,ヌエツグミ,ヌエドリ,オニツグミ,チョウマンなどとも呼ばれ,雪どけころから5,6月ころに陰気な声で夜鳴くことから,古来,不吉で無気味な鳥とされてきた。《万葉集》巻一には〈……むらきもの 心を痛み ぬえ子鳥 うらなけをれば……〉と歌われ,《堤中納言物語》にも〈ぬえの鳴きつるにやあらむ,忌むなるものを〉とある。…

※「オニツグミ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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