Women in general

“To masculine eyes the most interesting objects were the girls. Very pretty they looked as they tripped past on their elevated sandals, or smiled to us from the doorways of their little homes, They were dressed in the quaint, artistic Japanese dress which by this time Europe knows so well. The loose single garment of soft, delicately tinted material, fastened around the waist with the broad sash of some pale shade which is a colour-harmony in itself, and tied behind to a gigantic bow of truly grotesque proportions; the neck lightly powdered; the hair, jetty black, coiled in magnificent rolls, and harpooned with long pins; the almond eyes; dark lashes; little teeth and red lips—all combined to make such a charming picture.”

Gilbert Watson, Three Rolling Stones in Japan, (London, 1904) p. 15