Kansai
About Kansai
The Kansai region is a region of Japan that lies in the southern-central portion of Japan's main island, HonshΕ«. The region consists of the prefectures of HyΕgo, Kyoto, Mie, Nara, Osaka, Shiga, and Wakayama. Additionally, the prefectures of Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori are sometimes associated with Kansai.
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I found a paper from 2013 from a Japanese entomologist called Kenta Takada, called 'vulgar dialect names of earwigs used in the Kansai region of Japan.'
from No Such Thing As An Earwig Family Zoom Chat, 2020-06-12 at 00:39:11 Β· read transcript
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I went on to Google Translate because this paper was in Japanese and it seems like the reason that they're called this is when they have pincers in their back earwigs, don't they? On their bones they have these little pincers. Also in Japan, in this particular area, Kansai area, which is round Oskar and wherever, they were found in toilets. They were found around toilets. It might be that if you see something with pincers on it around the toilets, you might call it a penis cutter because it's like there might be a folklore that that would happen.
325: No Such Thing As An Earwig Family Zoom Chat, 2020-06-12 Β· listen
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