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  2. Japanese female beauty practices and ideals - Wikipedia

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    However, Japanese women may take steps to make themselves conventionally unattractive, as Japanese men may be intimidated by women who are 'too beautiful'. One example of a modern beauty ideal among Japanese women is yaeba/八重歯 ("double tooth"), which is the state of having crooked fang-like teeth. [4]

  3. Bijin - Wikipedia

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    Bijin (美人) is a Japanese term which literally means "a beautiful person" [1] and is synonymous with bijo (美女, "beautiful woman"). Girls are usually called bishōjo (美少女), while men are known as bidanshi (美男子) and boys are bishōnen (美少年).

  4. Bijin-ga - Wikipedia

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    Bijin-ga (美 (び) 人 (じん) 画 (が), "beautiful person picture") is a generic term for pictures of beautiful women in Japanese art, especially in woodblock printing of the ukiyo-e genre. Definition

  5. List of Japanese gravure idols - Wikipedia

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    Chiaki Takahashi (b. 1977) - later became a voice actress; Nozomi Takeuchi (b. 1980); Nonami Takizawa (b. 1985); Rio Teramoto (b. 2001) - also an actress; Erika Toda (b. 1988) - later became an actress.

  6. List of Japanese actresses - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of Japanese actresses in surname alphabetical order. Names are displayed given name first, per Wikipedia manual of style.. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing that they are Japanese actresses or must have references showing that they are Japanese actresses and are notable.

  7. Ono no Komachi - Wikipedia

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    Until relatively recently, when the title "Miss XYZ" became common in Japan, the woman considered most beautiful in such-and-such town or region would be dubbed "XYZ Komachi". [20] She and her contemporary Ariwara no Narihira are considered archetypes of female and male beauty, respectively, and both feature heavily in later literary works ...

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  9. Ohaguro - Wikipedia

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    Considering that Japanese girls were allowed a high degree of social and sexual freedom until the moment of receiving the ohaguro, when they accepted their responsibility as a wife and mother, Watanabe posits that this was a social ritual by which both society and the young woman affirmed the determination of the woman who had matured. [31]