Cho Kyo: 1 book
The Search for the Beautiful Woman
A Cultural History of Japanese and Chinese Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women. But in Japan, shaved eyebrows and blackened teeth long were...
