George Washington wore several different sets of dentures over the course of his lifetime, none made of wood. Instead, the dentists treating him would have used the cutting-edge materials of the time: bone, ivory, lead, brass, gold, and the castaway teeth of horses, donkeys, cows, and, yes, human beings.
When a singular concept is needed, -kami (ç¥) or -kamisama (ç¥æ§) is used as a suffix. The logograms for kami-sama are those used for shÃ©n yÃ ng in PÅ­tÅnghuÃ ; kami-sama can be used for a divinity, or for an outstanding human, such as Tezuka Osamu, the god of manga..
Kami (Japanese: ç¥, [kÃ¡êmÃ¬]) are the spirits or phenomena that are worshiped in the religion of Shinto. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, as well as beings and the qualities that these beings express, and include the spirits of venerated dead persons.