{"id":4640,"date":"2014-03-25T04:04:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T11:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=4640"},"modified":"2026-02-10T16:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:32:50","slug":"some-cicada-books-from-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/some-cicada-books-from-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Some cicada books from Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then I treat myself to a cicada book from Japan. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already written about Dr. M. Haysashi and <a href=\"http:\/\/zikade.world.coocan.jp\/Zikade.html\">Dr. Yasumasa Saisho<\/a>&#8216;s fantastic <a href=\"\/cicadas\/the-cicadidae-of-japan-cicada-book-of-the-year\/\">The Cicadidae of Japan<\/a> book. Here are some others:<\/p>\n<p>This book features huge photos of cicadas through all phases of their lives. It also features diagrams of their lifecycle and underground tunnels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-Cicada-Book-from-Japan.jpg\" alt=\"A Cicada Book from Japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"979\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-Cicada-Book-from-Japan.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-Cicada-Book-from-Japan-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-Cicada-Book-from-Japan-768x940.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Only the first eleven pages of this book are about cicadas, but they are excellent, featuring large photos of common cicadas. The book features two pages that match nymph exoskeletons to adult cicadas. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/And-Another-Cicada-Book-from-Japan.jpg\" alt=\"And Another Cicada Book from Japan\" width=\"787\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/And-Another-Cicada-Book-from-Japan.jpg 787w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/And-Another-Cicada-Book-from-Japan-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/And-Another-Cicada-Book-from-Japan-768x999.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This book also features many large photos of cicadas throughout their life cycle. The photos of eggs and first instar nymphs are particularly nice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Another-Cicada-Book-from-Japan.jpg\" alt=\"Another Cicada Book from Japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"951\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Another-Cicada-Book-from-Japan.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Another-Cicada-Book-from-Japan-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Another-Cicada-Book-from-Japan-768x913.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note that these books are not written in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then I treat myself to a cicada book from Japan. I&#8217;ve already written about Dr. M. Haysashi and Dr. Yasumasa Saisho&#8216;s fantastic The Cicadidae of Japan book. Here are some others: This book features huge photos of cicadas through all phases of their lives. It also features diagrams of their lifecycle and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}