Abstract
Photoscopic observations were employed in order to supplement the weaknesses of traditional anthropometry. Japanese men's body configurations in silhouettes were discussed, using photographs of front, side and back poses taken on 91 male university students. Silhouettes were also compared with those on female figures by Yanagisawa et al. The results were as follows :
1) Figures 2-1 to 2-4 show the contours of silhouettes of shoulder, breast, back and hip. Each of the silhouettes was classified according to the degree of slope. Even in the same group, individual silhouettes varied remarkably.
2) Mean values and standard deviations of 10 items of slope are given in Table 3.
3) Differences of silhouettes between male and female were significant at 1% level in anterior breast slope, in back slope and in posterior hip slope, respectively.
