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I got really curious about why the eyebrows on female Noh masks are so ridiculously high, so I looked it up. Apparently, women used to pluck or shave off their eyebrows and draw them much higher up, and that was considered the ideal look for a beautiful woman…
So this was beauty, huh… 🤔
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