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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 ...
Kuchisake-onna (口裂け女, 'Slit-Mouthed Woman') [1] is a malevolent figure in Japanese urban legends and folklore. Described as the malicious spirit, or onryō, of a woman, she partially covers her face with a mask or other item and carries a pair of scissors, a knife, or some other sharp object. She is most often described as a tall woman ...
Yayoi Kusama was born on 22 March 1929 in Matsumoto, Nagano. [11] Born into a family of merchants who owned a plant nursery and seed farm, [12] Kusama began drawing pictures of pumpkins in elementary school and created artwork she saw from hallucinations, works of which would later define her career. [9]
The Asian Mystique: dragon ladies, geisha girls, & our fantasies of the exotic orient. Wang, Yiman (2005). "The Art of Screen Passing: Anna May Wong's Yellow Yellowface Performance in the Art Deco Era". In Catherine Russell (ed.). Camera Obscura 60: New Women of the Silent Screen: China, Japan, Hollywood.
The ideal female skin color in Japan would be considered "tan" in the West. According to Ashikari, there is a widepread perception in Japan that European women's skin is less beautiful than Japanese women's, as White women's skin is stereotyped as being too pale, reddish, and roughly textured. [14]
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 ...
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.
As with the history of Japanese arts in general, the long history of Japanese painting exhibits synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and the adaptation of imported ideas, mainly from Chinese painting, which was especially influential at a number of points; significant Western influence only comes from the 19th century ...