Editing Cicada (section)

=== In art and literature ===
[[File:Schreibzeug (Nürnberg).jpg|thumb|Silver casket with writing utensils, made by the [[Nuremberg]] goldsmith [[Wenzel Jamnitzer]] (1507/08–1585): a silver cicada is at lower left.]]
[[File:Japanese snuff bottle in the form of a cicada 01A.jpg|thumb|Japanese [[snuff (tobacco)|snuff]] bottle in the form of a cicada, ''c.'' 1900]]

Cicadas have been featured in literature since the time of Homer's ''Iliad'', and as motifs in decorative art from the Chinese Shang dynasty (1766–1122 BCE).{{efn|See for instance the [[nephrite]] cicada from the Han dynasty (''c.'' 210 BCE) in the San Francisco Asian Art Museum.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cicada|url=http://education.asianart.org/explore-resources/artwork/cicada|publisher=Asian Art Museum|access-date=25 August 2015|archive-date=5 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005163824/http://education.asianart.org/explore-resources/artwork/cicada|url-status=dead}}</ref>}} They are described by [[Aristotle]] in his ''[[History of Animals]]'' and by [[Pliny the Elder]] in his ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Natural History]]''; their mechanism of sound production is mentioned by [[Hesiod]] in his poem "[[Works and Days]]": "when the [[Scolymus|Skolymus]] flowers, and the tuneful ''Tettix'' sitting on his tree in the weary summer season pours forth from under his wings his shrill song".<ref>{{cite book | author=Myers, J. G. |title=Insect Singers | publisher=G. Routledge and Sons| year=1929 |url=http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/c700lm29sec01.pdf}}</ref> In the classic 14th-century Chinese novel ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'', [[Diaochan]] took her name from the sable (''diāo'') tails and jade decorations in the shape of cicadas (''chán''), which adorned the hats of high-level officials.

In the Japanese novel ''[[The Tale of Genji]]'', the title character poetically likens one of his many love interests to a cicada for the way she delicately sheds her robe the way a cicada sheds its shell when molting. Cicada exuviae play a role in the [[manga]] ''[[Winter Cicada]]''. Cicadas are a frequent subject of ''[[haiku]]'', where, depending on type, they can indicate spring, summer, or autumn.<ref name="haiku_semi">{{Cite web | publisher=University of Virginia | url=http://hatbox.lib.virginia.edu/servlet/SaxonServlet?source=http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/haiku/HigHaik.xml&style=http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/haiku/long.xsl&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes&entryid=semi | archive-url=https://archive.today/20121212110250/http://hatbox.lib.virginia.edu/servlet/SaxonServlet?source=http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/haiku/HigHaik.xml&style=http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/haiku/long.xsl&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes&entryid=semi | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-12-12 | work=Haiku topical dictionary | title=Cicadas}}.</ref> [[Shaun Tan]]'s illustrated book ''Cicada'' tells the story of a hardworking but underappreciated cicada working in an office.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arthuralevinebooks.com/cicada|title=Cicada|website=Arthur A. Levine Books|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-20|archive-date=20 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220235939/https://www.arthuralevinebooks.com/cicada|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Branden Jacobs-Jenkins]]'s play ''[[Appropriate (play)|Appropriate]]'' takes place on an Arkansas farm in summer, and calls for the sounds of mating cicadas to underscore the entire show.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jacobs-Jenkins|first=Branden|url=https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=5011|title=Appropriate|publisher=Dramatists Play Service|year=2016|isbn=978-0822231912|location=New York|pages=1–116}}</ref>