Cats
Tanizaki Jun’ichirō
The most beautiful among the animals are surely the felines. The cat, the leopard, the tiger, the lion, all are beautiful. They are all beautiful, but the best is the cat. First, its eyes are nice, and also the shape of its nose is wonderful. The noses of lions, tigers, and leopards are a little too long relative to their faces. So they look dull and lack definition. In that connection the nose of the cat is ideal, neither long nor short, maintaining good symmetry, the beauty of the lines stretching smoothly from between the eyes to the mouth is indescribable. In particular the Persian cat is the best. Is there any animal with such a firm, well-defined face?