LAHi presents: Seriously Trivial During the Japanese invasion of Joseon Korea in late 1500’s,

LAHi presents: Seriously Trivial

During the Japanese invasion of Joseon Korea in late 1500’s, the Japanese soldiers killed Korean civilians, including women and children, and took their noses as war trophies. It was a custom in East Asia to take the heads of slain enemies as a war trophy. But because heads were inconvenient to transport back to Japan during wartime, the Japanese took noses and ears of the slain people back to their country. Today, there are various monuments and tombs of those noses and ears. One of the most notable example of those would be Mimizuka in Kyoto.

Source:

“Mimizuka.” Atlas Obscura. November 07, 2010. Accessed October 09, 2017. http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mimizuka.

Poster by Nic Calilung