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To: Gauguin who wrote (2774)	9/17/1997 2:53:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	of 71178

Gaugie-- Let me tell you--and everyone--about the Ear Mound in Kyoto. The Ear Mound dates from Japan's plans to conquer china and divide it among Japanese lords. Korea was in the way, so Japan assembled about 200,000 troops in 1592 and invaded, setting off a war that lasted six years and that by some accounts killed more than a million Koreans--close to one-third of the country's population at that time. The samurai in those days often cut off the heads of people they had killed as proof that their deeds matched their stories, but it was impossible to bring back so many heads by boat to Japan. So the samurai preserved the noses and somethimes the ears of those they killed, soldiers and civilians alike.... Japan's rulers displayed the noses and ears to Japanese subjects, apparantly as a warning not to challenge the authorities, and then buried them and dedicated the Ear Mound on September 28, 1597. There used to be a plaque that read: "One cannot say that cutting off ears or noses was so atrocious by the standard of the time", but now the people who run the Mound are more sensitive, and have removed it. And don't miss the "Thousand Nose Mound" near Bizen in western Japan. Janice

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