鉄漿かね

noun

tooth-blackening dye

Historical term for the dark dye used in the custom of ohaguro (tooth blackening), common in Japan until the Meiji era. The reading かね is the most common.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの女じょ性せいは、既き婚こんのしるしとして鉄漿かねを付つけていた。

  Women in the Edo period applied tooth-blackening dye as a sign of marriage.

• 博はく物ぶつ館かんで、鉄漿かねの作つくり方かたの展てん示じを見みた。

  I saw an exhibit at the museum on how tooth-blackening dye was made.