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Quote: Originally Posted by cppond You may be correct, but I hae read that the inside of a showa's mouth is usually black as opposed to a sanke or kohaku, for instance, whose mouth is white.

CP, that is accurate. It really helps when you are dealing with a young kindai showa with no motoguro and no head sumi and it they look somewhat like a sanke to look in the mouth.

Rick