tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post433203793538591677..comments2023-09-12T16:52:48.733+09:00Comments on Antisthenes' corollary*:: Kumamoto Women!Ἀντισθένηςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-46789777889906816232011-05-12T04:38:54.102+09:002011-05-12T04:38:54.102+09:00Ya. It's fun to make a certain kind of Japanes...Ya. It's fun to make a certain kind of Japanese squirm by telling them that the first empress was probably from Korea.Jeffreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-21197007486243718402011-05-11T15:21:03.046+09:002011-05-11T15:21:03.046+09:00I was somewhat 'tongue in cheek' about the...I was somewhat 'tongue in cheek' about the Yayoi/Jomon bifurcation. The truth is far more complicated as you know; and more to be found in DNA sampling than my subjective tastes, as you say. Even DNA sampling has its limitations. In any case, the Japanese are no more one people than British Islanders are, and better for it, despite the pontifications of Japan-otaku and nihonjinron 'experts'. There are outliers in the gene pool: Chinese envoys and trade; Korean from Japan's several invasions; Polynesian castaways; Russian, Dutch, Portuguese and other European from before, during (Dejima, Nagasaki had Japanese 'courtesans') and after Japan's isolation.<br /><br />'There is no accounting for taste', but I still stand by my opinion that the leggiest beauty I have seen in Japan is in Kumamoto.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-46691977923603193932011-05-11T05:28:49.350+09:002011-05-11T05:28:49.350+09:00"I do not know if it is because there is more..."I do not know if it is because there is more Yayoi/Korean blood in Kyushu than the Emishi/Ainu blood brought from Tohoku to Tokyo during the Genroku era . . ."<br /><br />Might have been the case if you'd been visiting 200 years ago. However, as in LA, almost no one who has lived in Tokyo in the last 100 years is actually from there . . . (or so goes the saying we have in the U.S. about LA).<br /><br />Tokyo has always attracted the Japanese equivalent of the best and brightest. I would say, it's just some random subjectivity on your part. Furthermore, the farther southwest you get in Japan, the more the SE Asian genetic stock has supposedly influenced the historic population as well.Jeffreynoreply@blogger.com