Black Teeth

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Black Teeth

During the Edo period in Japan, women would shave their eyebrows, apply white powder, adorn their lips with red pigment, and dye their teeth black using a mixture of iron rust and black pulp water. This practice was essential for noblewomen, as without it, no matter how beautiful they were, they would struggle to find a suitable marriage match. The imagery of a mouth resembling a tomb and a black hole is evoked, but fortunately, with the advent of the epidemic, everyone is masked and thus not easily recognizable. However, in Hong Kong, a 400-year-old female demon, adrift in a foreign land, inadvertently exposes her true form during a fire accident...
Book Title Black Teeth
Author Li Bihua
ISBN 9789888549801
Book Language Chinese
Publication Date 2021-07-02
Publisher Tian Di Book Company Limited
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