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By: Alternative to the A-Bomb? | Ingenial

Alternative to the A-Bomb? | Ingenial — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:50:33 +0000

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By: koNko

koNko — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:30:07 +0000

Because they are Chinese not Japanese. See my other comment elsewhare, Ear cleaning is practiced in both China and japan, the original practice should be from China where it is still very commonplace. I love to have this when I get my hair washed & cut. Very nice!

By: koNko

koNko — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:27:36 +0000

Ear cleaning by barbers is still a very common practice in China and by some good barbers in Japsn, and there are special tools made from bamboo and feathers for this.

I really like this, if you have never tried it you cannot understand why. And it really takes a lot of skill, the ear is a delicate thing.

By: D

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:45:12 +0000

Wow! Great finds! very strange and peculiar.

btw, is Yubiwaza? real? I'd never heard of this martial arts and I can't seem to find any definitive information.

By: derek

derek — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:50:44 +0000

Great stuff!!! It's very telling of the general ignorance of the period, the photograph used in the ear cleaning passage is clearly chinese, you can tell by the clothing worn by all three people in the photo (especially the footwear). It was common in turn of the century reporting to lump "orientals" into one bucket and mix-match photos.

By: ANon

ANon — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:40:04 +0000

If that was how they cure numbness then let's get the hell out of Kyoto! Perhaps the numbness is still there and is waiting for victims! just like the other urban legends.

And for the Yubiwaza, It does work perfectly. All you have to do is to stab your attacker's eye or b*tthole with your finger. Try not to get killed first.

By: sixmats

sixmats — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:28:47 +0000

Don't they still clean ears? What is my barber doing that for?

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Other Ten Percent » Blog Archive » Other Ten Percent 3/12/10 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:04:33 +0000

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By: Bri

Bri — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:10:22 +0000

Awesome!

However, I was always told that the way to cure numbness when sitting seiza was to lick your finger and touch it to your forehead three times - maybe the custom was changed when people stopped having straw laying around? Haha!

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