black teeth

I was watching Sanjuro, an old black and white Japanese movie, and I was thinking…what’s up with that woman’s teeth?  Apparently, before 1870 in Japan there was a custom for married women to dye their teeth black.  Whoa.  Reminds me of the weird ways European men used to dress in the 1700s.

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