垢

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blemish

On-Yomi: コウ

Koohii stories:

1) [astridtops] 17-8-2006(48): Big consternation in the court! A little bit of soil in the garden touched the empress' face and left a blemish there. Courtiers fainted left and right…

2) [mantixen] 14-10-2008(21): The empress gets a soil mask at the spa to treat a blemish.

3) [Green_Airplane] 18-2-2010(11): 垢嘗 [akaname] or 'grime licker' is a classical Japanese monster that comes out when your ofuro gets dirty and feeds on the filth. Its saliva is said to be poisonous. You can just picture it, hanging from the ceiling of your bathroom, dragging its enormous tongue wagging from its mouth, eating up all the dirt. If that doesn't help, try this: The empress is actually using the services of akaname to clean blemish off her face. As for the poison, well it works like botox..

4) [icamonkey] 8-8-2009(4): Using grime instead. "Look at all this grime. There's dirt everywhere the empress screeches, attendants cleaning left and right. (If you use a google image search for this kanji a bunch of cleaning products come up).

5) [CharleyGarrett] 19-2-2007(3): It's not a serious blemish. It's just a bit of soil that accidentally smudged the empress's face. We wish that all blemishs would just wash off don't we?

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