What do Japanese people look like? Hair, eyes, skin, nose, lips and face in 59 observed portraits

6 trait families measured across 59 documented portraits of Japanese people. Each family links to its full distribution.

Catalog portraits for Japanese are AI-generated adult subjects; the measurements on this page come from documented photographs of real people, not from these images.

Japanese hair

n = 23

Japanese: hair texture (andre walker) 1B — straight, medium in 91% of 23; hair color Black in 72% of 39; hair density Average in 54% of 24; hairline shape Rounded in 46% of 26; graying pattern None in 85% of 40.

Japanese eyes

n = 43

Japanese: iris color Very dark brown / black-appearing in 100% of 11; eye shape Almond in 63% of 43; upper eyelid crease type Single eyelid (monolid, no crease) in 95% of 39; epicanthic fold Tarsalis in 100% of 39; palpebral fissure slant Slight upslant in 91% of 43; eyebrow shape Straight in 62% of 42.

Japanese skin tone

n = 11

Japanese: fitzpatrick skin type Range III-IV in 91% of 11; skin undertone Warm (yellow / golden) in 89% of 9; pigmentation pattern Uniform in 100% of 30; freckling density None in 100% of 38.

Japanese nose

n = 43

Japanese: bridge profile (sagittal) Straight in 86% of 43; bridge height Medium in 53% of 43; bridge width Medium in 44% of 43; tip shape and definition Bulbous / round in 81% of 43; nostril shape Oval, horizontal in 86% of 43; alar base width Wide in 72% of 43; nasal length (proportional) Balanced in 49% of 43.

Japanese lips

n = 43

Japanese: overall lip volume Moderate in 65% of 43; upper-to-lower lip volume ratio Balanced (~1:1) in 100% of 43; cupid's bow morphology Soft / rounded in 100% of 43; philtrum definition Soft in 77% of 43; mouth width Balanced in 84% of 43.

Japanese face shape

n = 43

Japanese: overall face shape Round in 58% of 43; cheekbone (zygomatic) prominence Moderate in 93% of 43; cheekbone width (bizygomatic breadth) Wide in 65% of 43; midface morphology Full / youthful in 64% of 42; forehead shape (sagittal) Flat / vertical in 59% of 41; jaw width (bigonial) Wide in 65% of 43; mandibular angle (gonial angle) Soft / obtuse in 84% of 43; chin shape (frontal) Rounded in 84% of 43; chin projection (sagittal) Balanced in 93% of 43.

Where these numbers come from

59 publicly documented portraits of notable Japanese people were assessed by a vision model against the full 22-vocabulary schema, one value per dimension. Values are what the photographs show, read by a model, not population measurements. Each table counts only portraits where the value could be assessed; covered, obscured and unclear portraits are reported separately.

Notable-people corpora skew older, so hair color over-represents gray and white, and image quality varies. Treat shares as a description of this sample.

These rows are not yet in the published catalog dataset, which currently carries the earlier single-row analysis; see the methodology. A family page exists only when at least 10 portraits carry an assessable value.