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...

outer corners of the lips and eyes, as well as in between the eyebrows. Hikimayu, the removal of natural eyebrows and penciling in new ones was practiced...

the brow to raise. Japanese women and men from the 8th century practiced hikimayu: shaving or plucking the eyebrow hair and painting smudge-like ones higher...

plucking of the eyebrows, and their repainting – a practice known as hikimayu (引眉, hikimayu) – and the dyeing of teeth creating a masklike appearance. The current...

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fitted with a hakama) blackened their teeth and painted their eyebrows (hikimayu (引眉)). This was done in the Imperial household until the end of the Edo...

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their eyebrows were plucked or shaved and redrawn higher on the forehead (hikimayu). Women cultivated shiny, black flowing hair and a courtly woman's formal...

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Noh theatre. As such, her eyebrows were styled using a practice known as hikimayu. Kinuyo Tanaka, who played Miyagi, found the scene where she is a ghost...

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period (1603–1867), married women had a custom of shaving their eyebrows (hikimayu), but in bijin-ga, there was a rule to draw the eyebrows for married women...

wider ones that were painted higher on the forehead, a practice known as hikimayu. Hair had to be at least long enough to touch the ground when seated. The...

and neck, and their eyebrows would be painted higher on the forehead (hikimayu). Their hair was worn simply, and was left long and pulled back into a...

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white powder to the face, removing the eyebrows, drawing with ink (引き眉 hikimayu), and dyeing the teeth black (お歯黒 ohaguro), emphasizing bewitching rather...