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Face covering in historical Japan and Korea: separate traditions, similar boundaries

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Face covering in historical Japan and Korea: separate traditions, similar boundaries

Pre-modern Japan and Korea both had customs of women covering their faces in public. These arose from local codes of modesty, class and the separation of the sexes, not from Islamic law — and their forms, meanings and histories are distinct from the niqab.

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Source: National Diet Library of Japan — history of bridal culture, Kotobank — kaburimono (head coverings), Korean Culture Portal — sseugaechima, National Institute of Korean History — women's face coverings and naeo-oe, Academy of Korean Studies — myeonsa.

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