Word: shinobazu
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...shabby, kindly, skeptical old Ichiro Oga, a onetime Tokyo University professor known as "Professor Lotus," planted microphones by the blossoms in Shinobazu Pond to settle, once & for all, the explosive question. The microphones picked up no sound, and ever since the professor has scoffed at those who claim to have heard the lotus. But last week, like the others, Professor Lotus himself was listening again in the Tokyo swamps. He heard nothing. But there were those who did. Some told him the sound was like "kotsu." Some thought it was more like "quew," very softly spoken...
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