日本人の鼻の高さの変遷

　先に著者の一人高橋は昭和29年度宿題報告に於て鼻中隔畸形の発顕及び外鼻形が，都会農村の相違によつて変化し得る事を報告したが，此度外鼻形特に鼻の高さだけに就て其の後検索し得た事と共に此処に述べて見度い。

　Takahashi and Tsukahara maintain that external feature of the nose relative to the height of nasal septum among the Japanese undergo changes that are influenced by environmental and chronological differences. Their conclusions are as follows: Nasal features are underdeveloped, the head shapes are accompanied with a tendency of having a longer neck among the rural dwellers as compared to their counterparts in the city.

　Similar points are discernible by chronological comparison from the early Edo period to that of Meiji and the latter to the present.