In Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s story Hankechi (The Handkerchief), written in 1916, a mother visits Professor Hasegawa Kinzō to tell him that her son has died. She speaks calmly and smiles. Then the professor sees her hands under the table. They are trembling and grip her handkerchief so hard that it almost tears.
Fujin wa, kao de koso waratte ita ga, jitsu wa sakki kara, zenshin de naite ita no de aru. The woman was smiling with her face, but in truth she had been weeping with her whole body all along.
Later, the professor reads a passage by Strindberg. It calls this double performance, a smiling face while the hands tear a handkerchief, a mannerism.