Saturday, July 4, 2009

Watashi / Nose

In Japan the gesture for “me” is pointing to your nose rather than chest, as I am accustomed to seeing at home. I asked A if she knew the origin of this, she didn’t have an answer, but she argued that it is acceptable to point to ones chest or any portion of the face and not just the nose.

*Watashi is one of the pronouns for referring to ones self in Japanese

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