Hey guys this is Cathy cat today with more quizzes and trivia here
from Japan Tokyo so let's go and find out some stuff about Japan
What's the worst thing that can happen to you in a
private conversation or in a business meeting with a Japanese person?
number one you accidentally drop their business card
number two you actually call them chan instead of san or number three you accidentally fart
well Japan isn't really big on bodily functions and smells one of the things
for example is the Japanese people certainly don't smell
so actually leaving having a little fart slide during a polite meeting or
a business meeting or anything can be one of the most embarrassing things happening to you
so on that note let's go back a little bit in history
in the 16th century around the edo period it was very very important to have the right manners in
society and one of the big things that was very very big on people is that ladies also knew how
to behave in society so accidentally blowing some wind by accident was a difficult faux pas
different than the animals ladies especially ladies in society had to mind their manners at
all times and keep up the social face anytime so if a lady in polite society made a fart it
would be crucial she'd lose her face and yeah some actually would not go back into social life
TRIGGER WARNING: Suicide.
so there needed to be a situation in which those ladies could be saved from the disgrace and from
the shame and there actually became a profession out of that situation and that's the "Heoibikuni"
"He" means fart "Seou"
means to take over someone or take something over and bikuni is the name of a priestess
so i put that together it's a priestess that will take the shoulder all the blame
for someone's winds. The Heoibikuni would stand close to her mistress and whenever a very
very embarrassing situation as such might arise she would loudly announce "I did it it's my fart!"
to save the lady from disgrace she's like an official fart announcer
Lady: "Oh my it's so hot today isn't it? Be welcomed!"
Priestress: "I did it! It's my fart!"
as funny as this occupation sounds it was actually pretty hard to achieve because you had to fulfill
at least five criteria: you actually had to be a priestress, you had to skillfully take care
of your mistress, you had to be good at acting, you have to know how to act in high society, you had to
have a good relationship with your mistress... but of course the job of the priesthood was not just that
she was also there to generally take over servant duties for her mistress help her out in daily life
and take good care of her so it was actually a high prestigious job at the time as it was so guys
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as well maybe we'll put it into a future video. I hope you have a great day
take care of yourself and i'll catch you soon with another video from ask Japanese so see you soon
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We're a little tired!