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  2. 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

  3. File:Kitagawa Utamaro - Toji san bijin (Three Beauties of the ...

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    Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Kitagawa Utamaro - Toji san bijin (Three Beauties of the Present Day)From Bijin-ga (Pictures of Beautiful Women), published by Tsutaya Juzaburo - Google Art Project.jpg; Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/July-2014; Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/East Asian art; Wikipedia:Featured pictures ...

  4. 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]

  5. Utamaro - Wikipedia

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    Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese: 喜多川 歌麿; c. 1753 – 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated ...

  6. List of Japanese gravure idols - Wikipedia

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  7. Japanese model goes viral after sharing extreme before-and-after photos of her plastic surgery transformation; the result of more than 20 procedures costing around 24 million yen. The post ...

  8. Utamaro's pictures of abalone divers - Wikipedia

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    A prominent genre was bijin-ga ("pictures of beauties"), which depicted most often courtesans and geisha at leisure, and promoted the entertainments of the pleasure districts. [ 3 ] Kitagawa Utamaro ( c. 1753 –1806) made his name in the 1790s with his bijin ōkubi-e ("large-headed pictures of beautiful women") portraits, focusing on the head ...

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