Abstract
Greeting is the basis of Omotenashi, and one of the ways to greet is to bow. Bowing has different shades of meaning according to the country or region, but generally speaking it is the action of bending from the waist to greet someone, express thanks, or apologize. In this paper, we conducted an experiment on the difference in maneuver between an experienced and inexperienced person by recording their movements using a video camera and measuring the positions and timing of the bowing motion. The bow of the experienced person had a stable angle, with the shoulder angle (θ1) being around 180 degrees all three times, in other words the head was straight. The angle of the waist (θ2) was at around 20 degrees all three times. For the Japanese inexperienced test subjects, they were made to do a bow that they thought were proper way three times, and θ1, θ2 were measured. As a result, type of movement could be divided into three types. When teaching the bow, considering of these types, it is possible to deepen the teaching method.
