Japanese Women’s Beauty Through the Ages and the Plastic Surgery Stereotype
Document Type
Panel Presentation
Start Date
23-4-2021 9:15 AM
Keywords
Japan, beauty standards, stereotypes, history, beauty, plastic surgery
Biography
Cheyenne Thomas is a Japanese major in the Department of Modern Languages.
Major
Japanese
Advisor for this project
Zelideth Rivas
Abstract
This paper focuses on and challenge the Western world’s stereotypical view of Japanese women and plastic surgery. “Do Japanese women get plastic surgery simply to emulate western/European beauty, or do they do it to emulate their Japanese idols and enhance their natural Asian features?” Beauty is something that constantly changes with the times, and Japan’s history of beauty ideals is no different. From using oshiroi in the Nara period and ohaguro in the Heian period, to the Taisho period’s chic and rebellious parallel of the West’s 1920’s and 1930’s fashion, to today’s modern beauty and practices such as plastic surgery and gyaru/kawaii fashion culture, Japan has certainly caught the world’s attention.
Japanese Women’s Beauty Through the Ages and the Plastic Surgery Stereotype
This paper focuses on and challenge the Western world’s stereotypical view of Japanese women and plastic surgery. “Do Japanese women get plastic surgery simply to emulate western/European beauty, or do they do it to emulate their Japanese idols and enhance their natural Asian features?” Beauty is something that constantly changes with the times, and Japan’s history of beauty ideals is no different. From using oshiroi in the Nara period and ohaguro in the Heian period, to the Taisho period’s chic and rebellious parallel of the West’s 1920’s and 1930’s fashion, to today’s modern beauty and practices such as plastic surgery and gyaru/kawaii fashion culture, Japan has certainly caught the world’s attention.
