The Characteristics of the Japanese People
Story of the last century
Nonfiction, History, Asian, Japan, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
| Author: | Basil H. Chamberlain | ISBN: | 9782366591927 |
| Publisher: | Editions Le Mono | Publication: | May 16, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Editions Le Mono | Language: | English |
| Author: | Basil H. Chamberlain |
| ISBN: | 9782366591927 |
| Publisher: | Editions Le Mono |
| Publication: | May 16, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Editions Le Mono |
| Language: | English |
The Japanese are distinguished by a yellowish skin, straight black hair, scanty beard, almost total absence of hair on the arms, legs, and chest, broadish prominent cheek-bones, and more or less obliquely set eyes. These, with the other characteristics to be mentioned presently, are common both to the more slenderly built, oval-faced aristocracy, and to pudding-faced Gombei, the "Hodge" of Japanese Arcadia. Compared with people of European race, the average Japanese has a long body and short legs, a large skull with a tendency to prognathism (projecting jaws), a flat nose, coarse hair, scanty eye-lashes, puffy eyelids, a sallow complexion, and a low stature. The average stature of Japanese men is about the same as the average stature of European women. The women are proportionately smaller...
The Japanese are distinguished by a yellowish skin, straight black hair, scanty beard, almost total absence of hair on the arms, legs, and chest, broadish prominent cheek-bones, and more or less obliquely set eyes. These, with the other characteristics to be mentioned presently, are common both to the more slenderly built, oval-faced aristocracy, and to pudding-faced Gombei, the "Hodge" of Japanese Arcadia. Compared with people of European race, the average Japanese has a long body and short legs, a large skull with a tendency to prognathism (projecting jaws), a flat nose, coarse hair, scanty eye-lashes, puffy eyelids, a sallow complexion, and a low stature. The average stature of Japanese men is about the same as the average stature of European women. The women are proportionately smaller...
