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Painkillers are thought to complicate deliveries and women are discouraged by ob-gyns from taking them during childbirth. Therefore, Japanese births tend to be without pain medication. [7] Furthermore, there is a more positive image of a woman capable of natural birth. Without pain medication, labor displays the woman's strength and responsibility.
In pre-modern Japan, the date of the Niiname-sai was moveable, taking place on the last Day of the Rabbit of the eleventh month of the old Japanese lunar calendar, but in the Meiji period the date was fixed at November 23, and this date became a national holiday, Labor Thanksgiving Day, in the Shōwa period after World War II.
The festival was held on the second Day of the Rabbit in the 11th month of each year under the lunar calendar, and was fixed at November 23 when Japan adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1873. [ 6 ] During the occupation of Japan after World War II , the United States -led authorities sought to abolish Japanese national holidays rooted in the ...
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However, go is a homonym for five (五) in Japanese, so during the Nara period the meaning shifted to become the fifth day of the fifth month. [4] Sekku means a seasonal festival. There are five sekku , including O-Shogatsu (January 1), Hinamatsuri (March 3), Tanabata (July 7) and Kiku Matsuri (September 9), along with Tango no Sekku .
An image of ubume as depicted by Toriyama Sekien, an ukiyo-e artist famous for his prints of yokai and obakemono. [citation needed]In the 16th volume, first half of the Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang of the Tang dynasty, volume 462 of the Taiping Guangji of Northern Song dynasty, the "night-going leisure woman" is a nocturnal strange bird that steals people's babies and about it is written ...
Shidzue Katō (加藤 シヅエ, Katō Shizue, March 2, 1897 – December 22, 2001), also published as Shidzue Ishimoto, was a 20th-century Japanese feminist and one of the first women elected to the Diet of Japan, best known as a pioneer in the birth control movement.
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