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...The condom (bao cao su) was found by the owner (chủ nhà) of a kominka, or classical Japanese folk house, in the town of Shikamachi, Ishikawa Prefecture. The house has now been converted (chuyển đổi) into an inn (nhà trọ) for travelers, and the owner found the condom in the adjacent storehouse (nhà kho liền kề), which makes one wonder if the storehouse was used for amorous (đa tình, si tình, say đắm) rendezvous (nơi gặp gỡ) by its original owners.

Specifically, it was a Yamato Kinu-model condom that was found. One of the first mass-marketed condoms in Japan, the Yamato Kinu earned its popularity (được ưa thích, phổ biến) by being billed as a line of protection (bảo vệ) against infections (nhiễm trùng) of syphilis (giang mai), which saw major outbreaks (bùng phát) around the turn of the 20th century in Japan, where it’s known as baidoku (literally “plum poison” (chất độc từ quả mận)). This is believed to be the only Yamato Kinu condom still in existence, and while its exact age (niên đại chính xác) hasn’t been determined (chưa xác định), newspaper ads for the product from 1896 have survived, so it’s estimated that the condom was sold sometime around then.

Although Yamato Kinu translates as “Japanese clothing” or “Japanese silk,” the condom was actually made in France and imported (nhập khẩu từ pháp) to Japan by Morishita Jintan, as manufacturing technology at the time in Japan was insufficient to make them domestically.

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