\u308c<\/strong> (Ushiro no shoumen dare)<\/p>\n\u00a0[Who stands right behind you now]<\/p>\n
To play this game, hold hands with the person next to you and walk around in a circle. There will be a child in the middle of the circle with his or her eyes closed. When the song ends, the child in the middle will have to guess who is standing behind him. If he guesses correctly, then the person he named will switch places. Otherwise the child in the middle will continue to be in the middle. The \u201ckagome\u201d or the child in the middle is the bird in the cage.<\/p>\n
\u00a0In Japanese culture, cranes and tortoises symbolize long life. Therefore when the song mentions that the crane and tortoise \u201cslipped\u201d, it\u2019s saying that life has been cut short. Some Japanese scholars argue that this song was a cryptic telling of the historic betrayal of Akechi Mitsuhide (\u660e\u667a<\/strong> <\/strong>\u5149<\/strong>\u79c0<\/strong>). Mitsuhide was a samurai who betrayed Oda Nobunaga (\u7e54\u7530<\/strong> <\/strong>\u4fe1<\/strong>\u9577<\/strong>) and Nobunaga lost his life because of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a game that Japanese children play while singing a song. You can listen to the song below : \u304b\u3054\u3081\u304b\u3054\u3081 \u7bed\u306e\u4e2d\u306e\u9ce5\u306f(Kagome Kagome, Kago no naka no Tori wa) \u00a0[Kagome Kagome bird in the cage] \u3044\u3064\u3044\u3064\u51fa\u3084\u308b (Itsu Itsu deyaru?) \u00a0[When will you come out?] \u591c\u660e\u3051\u306e\u6669\u306b (Yoake no ban ni) [In the evening of the dawn ]…<\/p>\n
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