The Walters Art Museum. Lead Poisoning in Samurai Kids Linked to Mom's Makeup. Lead poisoning isn't just a problem for post-industrial city kids — the children of samurai suffered from it too, a new study suggests. An analysis of bones of children who lived as many as 400 years ago showed sky-high lead levels, which scientists now think came from their mothers' makeup. During the Edo period, from 1603 to 1867, Japan was ruled by a series of shoguns. Below the shogun, a few hundred feudal lords presided over the country's agricultural domains, each from within a castle-town headquarters that was protected by a cadre of samurai military nobles. At the castle town of Kokura, in the modern city of Kitakyushu, samurai and their families were buried in large clay pots at a local Zen Buddhist temple.
A team lead by Tamiji Nakashima, an anatomist at the University of Occupational and Environmental Health in Kitakyushu, studied the remains of 70 samurai men, their wives and children. Poison powder Political effects. Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Jimusho System: Part One. Each country or cultural region has a uniquely-structured industry responsible for producing, promoting, and distributing the products that make up what we consider “pop culture.” In the case of Japan, there is a single organizational category most responsible for the form and content of pop culture: the artist management company, called colloquially jimusho (“office.”) The jimusho wield a powerful cultural influence on all fields that require performers — television (variety and drama), advertising, music, modeling, gravia, and films. I will argue in this series that much of the content produced in these specific fields conforms to the business needs of artist management companies much more than it is created in response to audience desires.
The opposite is also true: Non-jimusho controlled fields such as manga and indie music have enjoyed much more freedom of expression. Part I – What are the Jimusho? Roles and Labor Relations How do the jimusho keep stars in their stables? Introduction and Contents. This is a list of questions and answers about the Japanese language originally from the Usenet newsgroup sci.lang.japan. Jump to: Writing, Grammar, Word origins, Words from other languages, Japanese and English, Word meanings, Pronunciation, Slang and colloquialisms, Names, Examinations, Word games, Numbers, counting, and dates, Etiquette, Computers, Miscellaneous, Other internet resources, About the sci.lang.japan Frequently Asked Questions. 1.
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