Also, depending on the region, hiiragi are used to pierce baskets, but this is what "to stab one eye" means in those places.
The character of Benten Kozō, meanwhile, is said to have been based upon a servant at the Iwamoto-in temple on Enoshima, an island dedicated to the goddess Benten.
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Nezumi is the Japanese word for "rat"; a kozō was a young errand-boy who worked in a shop in the Edo period.
Although Benedict was criticized for not discriminating among historical developments in the country in her study, "Japanese cultural critics were especially interested in her attempts to portray the whole or total structure ('zentai kōzō') of Japanese Culture", as Helen Hardacre put it.