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Oriental Portraits: II. Terauchi, Ex-Premier of Japan
September 28, 1918 issue

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The inscrutability of the Oriental face is a favorite theme with the Occidental writer. On the other hand, the old-style Japanese deems untamed savages because people freely show their emotions in their countenances. In Japan it is held to be the mark of politeness and of high breeding that the face, in public deportment, should bear the similitude of a wooden idol. The loftier the office or rank, the closer should be the resemblance. Sculpture and the mien of the living have mutually influenced each other.

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ART, Asian; SCULPTURE; ART, Japanese; WESTERNERS in Oriental art; ANTIQUES; JAPAN
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