{"id":12,"date":"2008-09-25T14:39:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T22:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/?p=12"},"modified":"2009-06-23T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T22:22:30","slug":"%e4%b8%89%e9%87%8d%e7%9e%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"\u4e09\u91cd\u77bc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet again, an entry on something I still do not fully understand.\u00a0 In Japan (and other parts of Asia), a single-fold eyelid (<em>hitoe-mabuta<\/em>) is considered by some to be less desirable than a double-fold eyelid (<em>futae-mabuta<\/em>).\u00a0 For more information, read this on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epicanthic_fold\" target=\"_blank\">epicanthic fold<\/a> and this on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asian_blepharoplasty\" target=\"_blank\">Asian blepharoplasty<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>References to <em>mie-mabuta<\/em> (an eyelid with three folds) are less common; below is an image someone has posted of one:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.j-spy.net\/image\/usual\/2005\/mitsue.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I bring this up also to point out the following <a href=\"http:\/\/torokko.sblo.jp\/article\/1462928.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog entry<\/a> on <em>mie-mabuta<\/em> (and this <a href=\"http:\/\/torokko.sblo.jp\/article\/3336240.html\" target=\"_blank\">follow-up<\/a>.)\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t able to find anything on the blog to let me know who runs it, but I am going to presume that it is a native speaker in Japan.\u00a0 The existence of sites like these show us that even native speakers (1) are sometimes uncertain and (2) are interested in these small details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet again, an entry on something I still do not fully understand.\u00a0 In Japan (and other parts of Asia), a single-fold eyelid (hitoe-mabuta) is considered by some to be less desirable than a double-fold eyelid (futae-mabuta).\u00a0 For more information, read this on the epicanthic fold and this on &#8220;Asian blepharoplasty.&#8221; References to mie-mabuta (an eyelid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}