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A female baby born in Nagpur, India in June 2016 died after two days. She was the first case of harlequin ichthyosis reported in India. [38] [39] [40] Hannah Betts was born with the condition in 1989 in Great Britain, and died in 2022 at 32 years old. [41] Ng Poh Peng was born in 1991 in Singapore. Doctors had not expected her to live past her ...
Lacquerware is a longstanding tradition in Japan [6] [7] and, at some point, kintsugi may have been combined with maki-e as a replacement for other ceramic repair techniques. . While the process is associated with Japanese craftsmen, the technique was also applied to ceramic pieces of other origins including China, Vietnam, and Kor
"Cord and plaque" armour consisted of double breast plates in the front and back held together, sometimes on a frame, by two shoulder straps and waist cords, worn over the usual lamellar armour. "Cord and plaque" wearing figurines are also often depicted holding an oval or rectangular shield and a long sword. [ 37 ]
In Chinese mythology, in various sources, associated with much related mythological material, various swords are said to have been forged by Gan Jiang (who studied under Ou Yezi) and Mo Xie (also transliterated as "Kan Chiang" and "Mo Yeh"), who were a husband and wife pair and eponymous makers of paired swords [20] Gan-jiang was the male, Mo ...
Early Japanese lamellar armour, called keiko, took the form of a sleeveless jacket and a helmet. [9] The middle of the Heian period was when lamellar armour started to take the shape that would be associated with samurai armour. By the late Heian period Japanese lamellar armour developed into full-fledged samurai armour called Ō-yoroi. [10]
In Traditional Chinese medicine, it is viewed as excessive heat moving upwards to the head, causing excessive emotion and thinking. The term is a compound of the words zouhuo ( Chinese : 走火 ; pinyin : zǒuhuǒ , meaning a spark, to have a short circuit, overstate, overconsume, catch fire; to be on fire") and rumo ( Chinese : 入魔 ; pinyin ...
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Fengguan (Chinese: 鳳冠; pinyin: fèngguān), also known as phoenix coronet or phoenix hat, [1] [2] is a type of guan (a type of Chinese traditional headgear) for women in Hanfu. It was worn mainly by noblewomen for ceremonies or official occasions.