Hikimayu was the practice of removing the natural eyebrows and painting smudge-like eyebrows on the forehead in pre-modern Japan, particularly in the Heian period.
Mikako Tokugawa, wife of Yoshinobu Tokugawa, with hikimayu
A poster for the 1953 film Ugetsu. The woman in the foreground has hikimayu.
Bijin is a Japanese term which literally means "a beautiful person" and is synonymous with bijo. Girls are usually called bishōjo, while men are known as bidanshi and boys are bishōnen. The term origi
Shin Bijin (1897) by Yōshū Chikanobu
Bijin Shichi Yōka (1878) by Yoshitoshi
Three Beauties of the Present Time (1793) by Utamaro
Byakuren Yanagiwara, one of the Three Beauties of Taishō period