Mikako Tokugawa, wife of Yoshinobu Tokugawa, with hikimayuA poster for the 1953 film Ugetsu. The woman in the foreground has hikimayu.
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 the Heian period (794–1185).
Hiki means "pull" and mayu means "eyebrows". Aristocratic women used to pluck or shave their eyebrows and paint new ones using a powdered ink called haizumi, which was made of soot from sesame or rapeseed oils.[1]
^Cosmetics in the Heian period. Archived copy of defunct webpage; accessed in April 2011
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