Besides, it would be also untrue.

For his May carries no suggestion of unfulfilment in its name.
Those Far Eastern paintings which have to do with man fall for the most part under one of two heads, the facetious and the historical.

The latter implies no particularly intimate concern for man in himself, for the past has very little personality for the present.

As for the former, its attention is, if anything, derogatory to him, for we are always shy of making fun of what we feel to be too closely a part of ourselves.
But impersonality has prevented the Far Oriental from having much amour propre.

He has no particular aversion to caricaturing himself.