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Fine Art
Endangered, Vulnerable, and Threatened Species
Symbolism and Symbolic Meanings
English to Japanese
What is a crane to the Japanese?
Answer

Wiki User
September 13, 2011 1:13PM
cranes are used in a thousand yen bills. And they are also frequently used in Japanese arts but they do not really mean anything.
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Asked in English to Japanese
What is the latin name for the Japanese crane?

All cranes are grus so by that theory that Japanese crane should
be Grus japonensis but I'm not a 100% sure on the spelling.
by the way its real name is the Red-crowned Crane
Tightropewalker is correct. Either common name is used, as is
Manchurian Crane.
Several crane species have red crowns.
Not all cranes are Grus, the wattled crane is Bugeranus
carunculatus, demoiselle and blue cranes are in the genus
Anthropoides and the crowned cranes are in the genus
Balearica.
The Japanese (or Manchurian or red-crowned crane) is Grus
japoensis