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Getting Married in old Japan

or, Their Troubles Have Only Just Begun A set of classic Meiji and Taisho-era Japan colourized stereoview and lantern-slide images by Japanese photographer T. ENAMI (1859-1929).

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3/6/2009 9:36:05 AM

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StraitJackett : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

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250 days 20 hours ago...

This is a fantastic photo. The only problem is, I keep thinking they look like they`re about to announce the next elimination challenge :(

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KIRIFUDA : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

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^lol

From what I heard a while ago, women used to put white makeup on and painted their teeth black because that way they would stand out in a typical dark Japanese house.

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Uzo : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

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^ I`m not sure about the teeth thing, but the face paint I believe was to suggest prosperity and wealth - it`s the same in most North Asian cultures.
Pale = inside = wealthy.
Tanned = outside = poor.
I dunno about China et al, but still in Japan you see women walking around with parasols and elbow-length gloves, and commercials advertising `whitening` chemicals that somehow bleach the pigment from your skin (scary stuff ... ).

Interesting concept though. But traditional Japanese houses would have been no darker - in fact, my experience suggests they would in fact be brighter - than European houses.

Japanese houses were designed with openness as a central theme - meant they had absolutely terrible insulation and were hugely vulnerable to typhoons and earthquakes, but it helped to get the air moving in the absolutely horrible humid summers here. Once you`ve been through a few Osaka summers you really don`t give a shit about typhoons anymore.

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