hikimayu
Sign in to savethumb|Mikako Tokugawa, wife of Yoshinobu Tokugawa, with thumb|alt=poster for Ugetsu|A poster for the 1953 film . The woman in the foreground has .
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thumb|Mikako Tokugawa, wife of Yoshinobu Tokugawa, with thumb|alt=poster for Ugetsu|A poster for the 1953 film . The woman in the foreground has .
was the practice of removing the natural eyebrows and painting smudge-like eyebrows on the forehead in pre-modern Japan, particularly in the Heian period (794–1185).
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