Thus, women of marriageable age in those regions often blackened their teeth, penciled their eyebrows and dressed in plain clothes as married women so that their blood would not be taken.
これにより、その地域の妙齢の女性の多くが生き血を取られないようにお歯黒・引眉・地味な着物・等の既婚女性と同様の容姿となった。