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2. Cutting fingernails or toenails at
night is bad luck. If one does so, it is
believed that they would be setting a
death curse on their parents. In
Japanese, 夜爪 “Yozume” (Night Nails)
has the same pronunciation as 世詰め
“Yozume” (to pass away) so it is never
a good word to say.
