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| The general aesthetic consciousness of the Edo period of Japan is represented by Sabi, Wabi, Garumi and Siori, which sought for inner as well as outer beauty with a focus one legant and quiet beauty and grace. Such consciousness of beauty also applied to women`s beautycare and hairstyle through make up, and as far as beauty care concerned, it changed, on one hand, due to the inner cause of culture, but on the other hand, in not a few cases, the crossing of multiple different cultures also affected and changed the standard of beauty or beauty care. The beauty care in the Edo period proceeded in the direction of embossing the characteristics of the person who applied cosmetics with the generalorder of wash, shaving, finger and foot nailcare, tying one`s hairback, powdering one`s face, and dyeing black. Especially, dyeing black, which had been popular in many ancient Asian countries, allows us to surmise that in thosedays, auniquestandard of beauty was set through international exchange. The Edo period has significance as a time in which Japan`s traditional hairstyle was fixed. As such, each one selected the trend according to her taste thinking up diverse styles and special shapes, which was then made popular as aunified, commonstyle. |
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| 에도시대 미의식, 에도시대 화장법, 에도시대 두발양식, The general aesthetic consciousness of the Edo period, The beauty care in the Edo period, hairstyle in the Edo period |
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