RE: [Shaku] The Power of Urushi

Professor Koizumi made a brief remark about Japanese reaction to urushi at a
seminar on Japanese music at Wesleyan University in the late 1960s. He died
in 1983.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin . [mailto:justinasia@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:23 PM
> To: Shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu
> Subject: RE: [Shaku] The Power of Urushi
>
>
> --- Karl Signell <signell@umbc.edu> wrote:
>
>
> > 50% of Japanese people are allergic to urushi, according to
> the noted
> > Japanese scholar Fumio Koizumi.
>
> Hi Karl
> Could you give Fumio's explanation of what he means here by
> allergic? Seems there are different levels of reactivity. For
> example, of all the people who have eaten in my home with
> chopsticks which I coated with urushi, and from time to time
> touch up as they wear, no-one has had any reaction. (However,
> had I been adding fresh urushi to the soup, probably quite a
> few of them would have reacted!)
>
> I wonder if Fumio might mean sensitive rather than alleric?
> Does he explain the level of sensitivity he means by this
> 50%? (I cannot imagine in the Edo period half the population
> being permanently swollen from all the laquerware about).
>
> Justin
>
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Received on Wed Jun 27 08:06 PDT 2007