mongol-proper

Updated: July 28, 2026

As for the Mongol-proper type, which is seen in the lower classes and even then not very frequently, its representative is squarely built, and has prominent cheek-bones, oblique eyes, a more or less flat nose with a large mouth. The Malay type is much commoner.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era