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  2. Hikimayu - Wikipedia

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    Hikimayu first appeared in the eighth century, when the Japanese court adopted Chinese customs and styles. [2] Japanese noblewomen started painting their faces with a white powder called oshiroi. One putative reason for hikimayu was that removing the natural eyebrows made it easier to put on the oshiroi. At this time, eyebrows were painted in ...

  3. Portrayal of female bodies in Chinese contemporary art

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    Many contemporary Chinese women artists have employed the use of female bodies as the subject of their artworks. From the ancient and imperial period of China until early the 19th century, women's body images in Chinese art were predominantly portrayed through male artists' lenses. As a result, female bodies were often misrepresented.

  4. Chinese ideals of female beauty - Wikipedia

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    Edited photographs of young Chinese women's eyes were presented to the test participants. It found that there was significant preference for the double eyelid while the single eyelid was considered to be the least attractive. [15] Because of this, many Chinese women go through a surgery that creates a fold in the upper eyelid giving them the ...

  5. 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 ]

  6. Chen Jin (painter) - Wikipedia

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    Chen Chin (Chinese: 陳進; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Chìn; November 2, 1907 – March 27, 1998), [1] also written as Ch'en Chin, [2] was a Taiwanese painter, known for her paintings of women . She is said to be the first Taiwanese woman painter to earn national recognition.

  7. Japanese painting - Wikipedia

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    This school changed Chinese style paintings with Chinese themes into Japanese style and played a major role in the formation of yamato-e painting style. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] With the rising importance of Pure Land sects of Japanese Buddhism in the 10th century, new image-types were developed to satisfy the devotional needs of these sects.

  8. Chinese Girl - Wikipedia

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    Face to face with the woman who is Tretchi's Chinese Girl" at Mail & Guardian "'Chinese Girl': The Mona Lisa of kitsch" at The Independent "'I never made money from the Green Lady,' says Tretchikoff's model" at The Guardian "Gaze of the Green Lady" at BBC News "I was the Chinese Girl in Tretchikoff's painting" BBC News.

  9. Shunga - Wikipedia

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    A soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army has relations with a Russian woman while a soldier of the same nationality watches from the ground, alluding to the Russo-Japanese War. 1905. The introduction of Western culture and technologies at the beginning of the Meiji era (1868–1912), particularly the importation of photo-reproduction techniques ...