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2021.10.14
By Sakuan Izumi
"How do I look?"
"I’m sorry, but let’s not try to be a ghost of a widow. "
"Why not? I thought we’re going to do this Helloweek thing."
"We will, but you look too scary with your teeth black."
【Tooth Blackening】
In the Edo period, women blackened their teeth when they get married and also shaved off their eyebrows after giving birth, both of which practices became the symbols of married women. During the Meiji period, both practices were banned because foreigners visiting Japan considered them to be too exotic.
