Bijin-ga (美(び)人(じん)画(が), "beautiful person picture") is a generic term for pictures of beautiful women (bijin) in Japanese art, especially in woodblock...

from the Meiji era to the Taisho era. Pictures of bijin in Japanese art are called bijin-ga. Bijin-ga is described as a genre of ukiyo-e paintings. Some...

Kansei San Bijin) and Three Famous Beauties (高名三美人, Kōmei San Bijin). Utamaro was the leading ukiyo-e artist in the 1790s in the bijin-ga genre of pictures...

such as actor portraits (yakusha-e) and portraits of beautiful women (bijin-ga), at the beginning of his career, and some series of large-size actor head-portraits...

practised by artists like Shunshō, focused on images of the courtesans (bijin-ga) and kabuki actors (yakusha-e) who were popular in Japan's cities at the...

painting. Her real name was Uemura Tsune. Shōen was known primarily for her bijin-ga, or paintings of beautiful women, in the nihonga style, although she produced...

a new form of yakusha-e, prints depicting Kabuki actors. However, his bijin-ga (images of beautiful women) paintings, while less famous, are said by some...

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...

(1790–1850). He produced numerous woodblock prints of beautiful women (bijin-ga) in the 1830s, but then abandoned printmaking in favor of painting. This...

Eisen (渓斎 英泉, 1790–1848) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist who specialised in bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women). His best works, including his ōkubi-e ("large...

Okumura Masanobu as well. Many of these were yakusha-e (actor prints) and bijin-ga (images of beautiful women), including images of standing courtesans, whose...

school. However, he delayed this for two years, likely devoting time to his bijin-ga and realizing the immense responsibility that would fall on his shoulders...

to prints of kabuki actors (yakusha-e) or prints with beautiful women (bijin-ga). There were many types of Omocha-e, including paper dolls to be dressed...

the early-1790s, Utamaro designed the first ōkubi-e of beautiful women (bijin-ga ōkubi-e). The shogunate authorities banned ōkubi-e in 1800, but the ban...

influenced Kontodo's bijin-ga portraits along with shin hanga designers Goyō Hashiguchi and Itō Shinsui. In 1925 he exhibited some of his bijin-ga at the Inten...

1972) was the art-name of a Nihonga artist and the leading master of the bijin-ga genre in the Taishō and Shōwa eras. His legal name was Kaburaki Ken'ichi...

Kiyonobu and the Torii school that followed him, and courtesans in the bijin-ga of Ando and his Kaigetsudō school. Ando and his followers produced a stereotyped...

Matsubayashi Keigetsu. Through his introduction, she became pupil of the Japanese bijin-ga (美人畫, pictures of beautiful women) painter Kaburagi Kiyokata, and received...

effectively monopolized the market. Itō came to be known as a specialist in the bijin-ga ("picture[s] of beautiful women") genre, although he also occasionally...

the age of 13 to Kaburagi Kiyokata (1878–1973), a traditional master of Bijin-ga, pictures of beautiful women. Kasamatsu however took an interest in landscape...

himself in his early work to common ukiyo-e themes such as women (美人画 bijin-ga) and actors (役者絵 yakusha-e). Then, after the death of Toyohiro, Hiroshige...

it was not until 1882 that he was secure. A series of bijin-ga designed in 1878 entitled Bijin shichi yoka caused political trouble for Yoshitoshi because...

It was the largest ukiyo-e school of its period. The main styles were bijin-ga (beautiful women) and uki-e (perspective picture). His pupil, Toyokuni...

her master's degree in 1997. Her artwork subject matter is traditional Bijin-ga (literally "beautiful person picture") but rather than depicting women...

1760s, Harunobu thus became one of the primary producers of images of bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women), actors of Edo and related subjects for the...

artist after her father. Ōi is known to have excelled at handwriting and in bijin-ga paintings of beautiful women. The following is a selected list of her works...

was outlawed in Japan in 1934.[citation needed][circular reporting?] Bijin Bijin-ga Cherry, Kittredge (1987). Womansword: What Japanese Words Say about...

of Utamaro, who was known for his vertical ōkubi-e bust prints in the bijin-ga genre of portraits of beautiful women. Most of Eishō's prints were in the...

no Shigetada Examples of "beauty pictures" (美人画, Bijin-ga) include: Azuma series, keshō Shin Bijin series, No. 12 Setsu Gekka (second series), suimen...

figure in the formative era of ukiyo-e doing early works on actors and bijin-ga ("pictures of beautiful women"). While Masanobu's early life is largely...