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A sign at a park featuring Irasutoya illustrations. In addition to typical clip art topics, unusual occupations such as nosmiologists, airport bird patrollers, and foresters are depicted, as are special machines like miso soup dispensers, centrifuges, transmission electron microscopes, obscure musical instruments (didgeridoo, zampoña, cor anglais), dinosaurs and other ancient creatures such ...
Mikako Tokugawa, wife of Yoshinobu Tokugawa, with hikimayu A poster for the 1953 film Ugetsu.The woman in the foreground has hikimayu.. Hikimayu (引眉) 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 (794–1185).
Bidou Yamaguchi (山口 毘堂, Yamaguchi Bidō), a master Noh mask carver in the Hōshō tradition, was born Yamaguchi Hiroki on February 28, 1970, in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, on the island of Kyūshū in Japan. As an outstanding figure in the younger generation, Bidou illustrates how this ancient Japanese art is being both perpetuated and renewed.
Hōate are also portrayed in art and literature of the period, most notably the Aki no yo no Nagamonogatari scroll [10] and Taiheiki. The menpō (half-mask with detachable nosepiece) and the sōmen (full face mask) are believed to have been introduced around the mid to late 15th century, and the hanbō (chin guard) in the second half of the ...
Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga is credited as being the oldest work of manga in Japan, and is a national treasure as well as many Japanese animators believe it is also the origin of Japanese animated movies. [ 8 ] [ 14 ] In Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga the animals were drawn with very expressive faces and also sometimes used "speed lines", a technique used in ...
Kyoto geisha Toshimana holding a Nōh mask, wearing full make-up and a katsura (wig). Oshiroi ( 白粉 ) is a powder foundation traditionally used by kabuki actors, geisha and their apprentices . The word is written with kanji meaning "white powder", and is pronounced as the word for white ( shiroi ) with the honorific prefix o- .
YouTuber James Charles caught flack from commenters after he uploaded a video dedicated to recreating Korean beauty looks, but featured makeup references from Japanese and Chinese influencers.
Pages in category "Cultural depictions of Japanese people" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .