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Bijinga (美人画 bijin-ga lit. beautiful person picture) is a generic term for pictures of beautiful women in Japanese art especially in woodblock printing of the ukiyo-e genre which predate photography. The term can also be used for modern media provided the image conforms to a somewhat classic representation of a woman usually depicted wearing kimono.Nearly all ukiyo-e artists produced bijin-ga it being one of the central themes of the genre.
