時鳥

Japanese

The kanji spelling literally means “time bird”, as the lesser cuckoo's timely arrival in early summer can be used as a metaphor for new life detaching from the past.[1]

See also 時(とき)つ鳥(どり) (tokitsudori) and 時(とき)の鳥(とり) (toki no tori).

For pronunciation and definitions of 時鳥 – see the following entry.

[noun] the lesser cuckoo, Cuculus poliocephalus

Alternative spellings
子規, 時鳥, 杜宇, 杜鵑, 田鵑, 蜀魂, 郭公, 不如帰, ほととぎす

(This term, 時鳥, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Daniel Gallimore (2019), “Of Ponds, Lakes, and the Sea: Shōyō, Shakespeare, and Romanticism”, in Alex Watson, Laurence Williams, editors, British Romanticism in Asia: The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia (Asia-Pacific and Literature in English), Springer, →ISBN, page 281

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