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San'e — Birth Pollution

Canonical entry drawn from a single source layer in 16_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_I_v2_4.md.

Source file: 16_AGGRESSIVE_ARCHIVE_SWEEP_I_v2_4.md

Japanese: 産穢
Historical diaries distinguish birth pollution from death pollution and discuss the problem of mixed contact (konshoku) between pollution categories.

This demonstrates a quasi-juridical pollution calculus: source → contact → secondary contact → duration → prohibited sacred activity.

Extract durations and contact radii from Heian/medieval legal/diary sources rather than assuming later folk rules.