The characteristics of the japanese people
Story of the last century
Basil H. Chamberlain
Résumé
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...
Caractéristiques techniques
NUMERIQUE | |
Éditeur(s) | Editions Le Mono |
Auteur(s) | Basil H. Chamberlain |
Parution | 16/05/2016 |
Contenu |
ePub + Mobi/Kindle |
EAN13 |
9782366591927 |
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