Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Do you know the wind-bell(Furin)?

The wind-bell(Furin) hangs it in the under the eaves of the house in summer in Japan and is a used small bell bell.

The system is such that a sound sounds by wind.The sound depends on in the materials of the outside body and tongue.

Generally it is a cool sound in Japan. It resembles the voice of the insects such as tin insects informing autumn.

The Japanese felt the cool to let the humid hot summer when Japan was humid and sticky in the times when there was not the air conditioner go past by hearing wind ting-a-ling.

It becomes one of the summer features in Japan.





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