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bijin-ga
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Also known as bijinga

thumb|Three Beauties of the Present Day by [[Utamaro, 1793]]

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Subclass of
ukiyo-e
Country of origin
Japan
Depicts
bijin
Image
Utamaro (1793) Three Beauties of the Present Time, MFAB 21.6382.jpg
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Commons category
Bijin-ga
hashtag
bijinga
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thumb|Three Beauties of the Present Day by [[Utamaro, 1793]]

is a generic term for pictures of beautiful women () in Japanese art, especially in woodblock printing of the ukiyo-e genre.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bijin-ga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.