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prohibition

On-Yomi: キン

Koohii stories:

1) [snallygaster] 26-9-2007(224): Similar to radical tyro's story. If you live in Japan, your main exposure to this kanji is probably "no smoking" signs. So I imagine the government enacting a prohibition of tobacco, and burning whole groves of tobacco plants on an altar (the altar of public health, or self-righteousness, if you will).

2) [Thunderball] 7-8-2007(37): Hidden in a grove was a church with a secret altar that was stocked full of prohibited alcohol during the American prohibition period of 1920-1933. A local registered himself as a mininster of this altar so he could stock prohibited alcohol "for sacremental purposes" and share it with his kin (きん).

3) [genbaku] 13-1-2008(25): Placing trees on this alter is prohibited.

4) [Antunes] 21-12-2006(21): When Chirstianity was prohibited and the christians were being chased in Japan they had to hide their altars under the groves.

5) [harusame] 29-5-2009(12): During prohibition, people drank hidden in groves so that they wouldn't be shown drinking in public.

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