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tanuki-kimono · 4 months
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Cw: We are going to talk here about periods, and sex education in the past. Read this note according to your own sensibilities :)
How women dealt with periods during Edo period, article by shunga enthousiast Shungirl who made a paper pad following instructions found in makura bunko 枕文庫 - ie ancient sex books illustrated with erotic ukiyoe.
One of such makura bunko is 渓斎英泉 Keisai Eisen's 閨中紀聞-枕文庫, first published in 1822. It details Chinese remedies recipes for menstrual pains and irregularities, give tips about sex, and information about menstruations and pregnancy. From a modern point of view, some beliefs are outdated, but it was then such a bestseller it went through several reeditions.
Several words were apparently in use during Edo era to designates menstrual period: keisui 経水, gekkei 月経, tsukiyaku 月水, etc.
When girls went throught their first period, their females relatives or nannies would taught them how to deal with them. One method was to use paper as sanitary products (please note people without easy access to paper probably dealt with periods differently).
__________ 御馬 paper pads
Sanitary pads, such as the one recreated above by Shungirl, were then called mima 御馬 (probably as a pun on true "mima" which were then fine horses own by noblemen, or attached to sanctuaries as mounts for gods etc) or simply ouma お馬 ("honorable" horse).
Ouma were made from inexpensive recycled paper called Asakusagami 浅草紙. Sheets were folded 8 times, tied with twisted paper strings (koyori 紙縒), and then wrapped with another layer of folded paper. It was secured once again with paper strings.
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Part of the strings could be left long so to tie around the waist, or/and pad was hold into place by wearing fundoshi 褌 loincloth (which would also help prevent leaking on inner tights).
Asakusagami quality was low (it was also used as toilet paper) so paper pads had to be changed often, meaning you had to fold quite a lot of them to go through your period!
Shungirl folded the pad above following instructions found in the book 実娯教絵抄, which provided several other "models":
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__________ 詰め紙 paper tampons
Another method for dealing with periods were tampon-like paper bundles which were inserted into the vagina, the 詰め紙 (tsumeshi? I am not sure of the reading).
This method may have first appeared in red-light districts (?). Beside its use for periods, prostitutes also used those tampons as method of contraception (OP has an interesting article on this subject).
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By the end of Edo period and into Meiji, paper tampons were widely used even by women who were not prostitutes - despite voices branding this method as unsanitary.
__________ About girls' coming of age rites
Menarche (first period) was an important milestone for girls, and was celebrated as such via specific rites (shochō o iwau 初潮を祝). Those differed a lot from places to places, and also depended on social status.
Celebrations would concern close family, but often spread to wider community who could received for example a festive meal (sekihan 赤飯) for the occasion (some Edo era senryû poems stress how mortifying this publicity could be!).
Interestingly, some traditions were also pretty sweet: in some places, mothers would sew 3 stiches into their daughter's underskirt (koshimaki 腰巻き) as a good luck charm, hoping their periods would last only 3 days <3
Those rites were part of coming of age traditions (seijoshiki 成女式) which marked the start of a young woman adulthood. Another example is the blackening of teeth (ohaguro お歯黒) which usually started around 16-17 years old.
Celebrating menarche publicly was a way of advertising that the girl was no longer a child and would "soon" be a bride. Yet, if menarche often took place around 13-14 years old, in reality it was somehow unusual to have girls married so soon!
Before marriage, especially in non-noble/samurai families, young women often started their sexual life via flings or yobai 夜這い ("night crawling" ie pseudo-secret nighttime encounters) before any wedding actually took place.
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actoons · 5 months
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Slutweed
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cluepoke-archive · 7 months
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Ahhhhh.... goo lagoon
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shinyeu · 7 months
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I'm excited to show my full illustration for Your Hand in Mine - A Saiouma Zine @310saioumazine💜💙 it was really fun participating, I love Saiouma forever haha it was such a pleasure being able to draw them again! 🥰
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frickingnerd · 7 months
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dating kokichi ouma
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pairing: kokichi ouma x gn!reader
a/n: i really grew to love kokichi recently and he somehow sneaked his way up into my fav danganronpa characters <3
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kokichi has never been in a relationship until he started dating you, yet he lies about it and pretends like he has been with countless people before you
though just based on how clumsy he is when it comes to being intimate and how quickly he gets flustered, you can guess that he was just lying about that
kokichi tries not to lie to you too much once you two start dating, since he believes you deserve honesty in a relationship, yet sometimes he falls back into his old habits
he especially starts to pick up bad habits again when he's jealous! 
he gets jealous very easily, yet always lies and pretends like he isn't upset about seeing you talk to another guy
however, those guys he claims not to be jealous about end up getting teased and pranked by kokichi quite a lot for "no particular reason"
kokichi is just really protective of you, but since he can't physically do something against people he doesn't like, he has to result to using his wits and pranks to get rid of them
he can even be downright possessive! he was hesitant to fall in love but once he started dating you, he became scared of losing you again, leading to his clingy and possessive behavior
speaking of clingy, kokichi loves to cuddle with you, even if he always plays it off as a joke
out of all the ways to show affection, cuddling is his favorite one
there's nothing more intimate to him than laying on the couch with you, arms wrapped around each other and feeling so safe and comfortable that you two just end up falling asleep…
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deadaccount1253 · 8 months
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wackpedion · 10 months
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Originally this wasn't gonna be much out of the ordinary but I then went in a style experimental route, not sure if its the best choice but it's good in its own right
(Also I love his supreme leader cloak and hat and I need more content of him in it please)
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milkgrizz · 9 months
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trashpuppyy · 1 month
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ITS A LIE
he's talking about the world. the entire world is a lie. he is standing in the ANTI - VOID
i animated it for fun :)
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msarts649 · 12 days
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ahwait-no-yes · 2 months
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based off that one official art of ame-chan
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hiphopcherrrypop · 1 month
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happy valentines day
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cl0wnfiish · 9 months
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let’s get the hell outta here momota chan!!!
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nekromeowncer · 1 year
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frickingnerd · 1 year
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kokichi ouma with a s/o who's framed for murder
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pairing: kokichi ouma x fem!reader
tags: angst, lies, reader is framed for murder, death, spoiler for danganronpa v3
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everyone thought you were kind. too kind even, since you were even nice to someone like kokichi who caused nothing but trouble
but when the next body was found and all the evidence seemed to suggest you were the killer, everyone quickly changed their minds about you
and it didn't help that you even went along with it–
you got the idea from kokichi. turns out being around him had a few perks after all
he had confided in you, about his plan to reveal the mastermind and end the killing game. how he wanted to create a case where the mastermind would make a mistake and break their own rules
he wanted to be the one playing the bait, but things don't always go as planned. and when monokuma tried to frame you for this case, you played along
you gave kokichi a warm smile, before you put on your act. and kokichi stayed quiet, since he didn't want to ruin your plan. his plan
but he quickly ended up regretting it
he could've saved you!
he was sure monokuma would slip up
even as everyone voted for you as the blackened - including him - he thought monokuma wouldn't possibly go through with your execution
just seconds before he did execute you, it finally dawned on him. monokuma would go through with it!
kokichi desperately cries out your name, trying to jump in and save you. he's sobbing as he tries to get to you
but he's too late
and again, you just smile at him. as if you were trying to tell him that everything will be alright. that your death wouldn't be in vain
everyone thinks this is just another one of kokichi's acts, as he tries to explain the situation to the others. that you were framed for the murder. that you couldn't hurt a fly, let alone another person!
but nobody believes a word he is saying
why should they? even he voted for you as the blackened! 
if he knew you were innocent, why would he do that? he was just trying to mess with their heads!
the truth was only revealed after kokichi had passed away as well. when kaito explained kokichi's plan to the others, they slowly start to realize that the two of you had really been trying to help them
but you would never know that they found out or that your plan ended up succeeding. you were both dead by that point and had died believing your attempts were in vain...
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miacriscitello · 3 months
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hi everyone! nishishi! i am going to take a bath right now! see you later! ..・ヾ(。><)シ
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