Bijinga

Bijinga (Japanese美人 画, dt " pictures of beautiful women " ) called Ukiyo -e with depictions of women, which corresponded to the contemporary ideal of beauty.

Before the Meiji period they used the term Bijin -e (美人 絵) with the same meaning. bijin - actually " beautiful person " - learned in the time of the tenth and eleventh Tokugawa Shogunate a meaning narrowing to primarily women. Therefore Bijin -e may also include representations of men. Bijinga is now regarded as a generic name for ukiyo -e of beautiful women, regardless of the time of origin of works of art. As the wedding Bijinga applies the Kasei period (1804-1830) with their eponymous culture than Torii Kiyonaga, Utamaro and Eishi Hosoda (细 田 栄 之; 1756-1829 ) created this. In contrast to the emerging at the same time yakusha -e (役 者 絵), ukiyo -e of kabuki actors, the women pictured had no individual facial features.