Bowing Style in Japanese Famous TV Program

摘要

Japanese national broadcasting NHK provides 15 min TV drama program every morning. That is called as national TV program and many people enjoy it. Every half year contents of drama is changed. Recently "ASA GA KIT A" was televised. This drama described one lady life who established the first insurance company almost 100 year ago. In the program bowing style was different from that at present, and viewers felt that it was very cute bowing and loved it very much, so that viewing rate was very high. In this paper classification of bowing style appeared in this program and comparison between those styles and present bowing. Also relation between bowing style and viewing rate was discussed.