If this masked woman asks if she’s pretty, the correct answer is “average”

By Hayami Shungyōsai (速水春暁斎, Japanese, *1767, †1823) - scanned from ISBN 978-4-336-04447-1., Public Domain, Link

If a beautiful woman in a surgical mask asks if she’s pretty, the correct answer — according to decades of Japanese folklore — is “average.” Anything else and you’re in trouble. Say no, and she kills you with her long scissors. Say yes, and sh…