Finger Prints in Japanese Females

Abstract

On the basis of the finger prints of 213, 138 Japanese females collected by the research group of Japanese dermatoglyphics from 169 sites covering almost all Japan during 1952 to 1955, local variations and a geographical cline of Japanese were ascertained. The percentile frequencies of four pattern types, B, S, ODS and OW, according to KOIKE (1949), and the value of pattern intensity were used in the present study. Although a finegeo graphical cline is not necessarily observed in the finger prints of Japanese females, it is possibly found as follows; two geographical areas are divided, namely 1) the Tohoku and Ura-Nippon (the Japan Sea Coast) and 2) the Kyushu, Setouchi (the Inland Sea Coast) and Kinki districts. The former shows a greater frequency of types B and ODS and a lesser one of type OW than the latter. The Ainu is more closely related to the nearest, Tohoku district.