THE CRANE AS A SYMBOL OF FIDELITY IN TURKISH AND JAPANESE CULTURES.

The crane is the symbol of fidelity, sack, profusion, welfare, pureness, patience, honour, love and freedom in Turkish culture. On the other hand, it is the messenger of enthusiasm, sadness and well-being. Therefore, they take an intermediary role in telling one's feelings in folk songs. The cranes have an important role in Japanese culture. The crane is the symbol of fidelity, welfare, beauty, sake, profusion, longevity in Japanese culture. In this context, Turkish culture and Japanese culture have some parallel points. Japanese believe that a patient will clear up by making one thousand cranes with the paper folding method. Sadako Sasaki who contracted leukaemia when the atom bomb dropped to Hiroshima tried it. According to a Japanese tale, a boy treats a wounded crane. Whereon, the crane turns into a young and beautiful woman. After that, they meet and marry. The woman is very skillful. She enriches her spouse by twilling. The man decides to gaup his wife secretly. Because he wonders how she woves fabric. He astonishes anything that he comes across. It seems that the woman who turns into the crane in the atelier is twilling with the feathers that she plucks one by one. However, when she realizes that her husband sees her as a crane, she flew away. According to a common belief, the cranes are monogamist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]