Javanese woman

 Javanese women are known to have a unique beauty. 

Thomas Stamford Raffles in his book The History of Java even described the beauty of Javanese women at that time in the form of poetry. "Her face is bright shining like the moon, so beautiful. Raden Putri is much prettier than Dewi Ratih. He shines even in the dark, without a single flaw present. He was so brilliant that he radiated into the sky as he gazed at the sky. The sun's rays can't even match. She's so beautiful it's indescribable."

If the face is depicted like the moonlight, this time Stamford Raffles depicts another part of the beauty of Javanese women. “Her body shape is very beautiful, her hair is curled up to her ankles. Her bangs were neatly combed and her forehead was as smooth as sandalwood. His eyebrows are like two mimbo leaves, the corners of his eyes are angled upwards, his eyeballs are large and look teary and his eyelashes are curly." Javanese women are even described as having small and pointy noses with rows of neat and orderly teeth. The strength of Javanese women is also written by Stamford , "black as a panther."

"The color of her lips is like a ripe mango. Her cheeks are like durian fruit rising upwards. Her ears are as beautiful as gianti flowers, and her neck is like a young gadung leaf."

“Her shoulders are level like golden scales; her chest is open and full; her breasts were ivory, round and firm. His arms are angled like bows, his fingers are long and slender, as thin as forest grass. His nails are like pearls, his skin is bright yellow, his hips are like patrams sticking out of their shells and his waist is like the leaves of a pyramid.” In the book Suluk Tambangraras written in 1809, a Javanese woman is described as having five fingers. The book, which was published at the request of King Paku Buwana V, describes Javanese women as thumbs, which means that the wife must serve her husband. Like the index finger, the wife must obey the husband's orders.