Editing Dodes'ka-den (section)

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The film's title "''Dodeska-den''" are the playacting "words" uttered by the boy character to mimic the sound of his imaginary trolley car in motion. It is not a commonly used [[onomatopoeia|onomatopoeic]] word in the Japanese vocabulary, but was invented by author [[Shūgorō Yamamoto]] in ''{{illm|Kisetsu no Nai Machi|ja|季節のない街}}'' (''A City Without Seasons''), the original novel on which the film was based. In standard Japanese language, this sound would be described as ''gatan goton'', equivalent to "clickity-clack" in English.{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|More specifically, it is the sound that the trolley makes as it passes over the [[Track (rail transport)#Joining rails|joints in the rail]].<ref>{{citation|last=Yamamoto |first=Shūgoro |title=Kisetsu no nai machi |work=Yamamoto Shugoro shosetsu zenshu (collected works) |volume=17 |year=1969 |orig-year=1962 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lyQVAQAAMAAJ|language=ja}}</ref>}}{{sfnp|Mellen|1972|p=20}}