Hikimayu
The Japanese court custom of removing the natural eyebrows and painting soft new ones high on the forehead.
In hikimayu, the eyebrows were plucked or shaved and new ones painted as soft smudges higher up the forehead. It began among aristocratic women of the Heian period, about 794 to 1185, and was later taken up by court men and samurai. In the Edo period married women shaved their brows as well as blackening their teeth. Both customs were discouraged by the Meiji government from 1870. The look survives in Noh and traditional theatre.