Teeth blackening
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Teeth blackening or teeth lacquering is a custom of dyeing one's teeth black. It was most predominantly practiced in Southeast Asian and Oceanic cultures, particularly among Austronesian, Austroasiati
An Akha woman from Myanmar with blackened teeth
Ukiyo-e by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 'Twenty-Four Hours at Shinbashi and Yanagibashi', print 13, showing a woman applying ohaguro
Ukiyo-e of yama-uba with blackened teeth
Vietnamese statues depicting the traditional practice of teeth blackening (nhuộm răng đen).
Hikimayu
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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.