Dark Beauty women

This is a collection featuring a large number of works by 50 popular and emerging artists from various genres such as Japanese painting, Western painting, and illustration, all depicting beautiful women with a melancholic air.

It is said that the Japanese aesthetic has long been found in the shadows, invoking imagination in the unseen and adoring it as a unique Japanese sensibility.

In the world of fine arts and art, expressions of “quiet,” “calm,” “melancholic,” and “emotionally deep” women are often seen, where the beauty of the shadows and the fluctuations of inner emotions are realistically portrayed.

This book allows you to savor the world of dark yet enchanting beauties and the beauty of light and shadow.

*Japanese and English written together

[Featured artists]
Ayana Otake, Kei Yachida, Terumi Sakanene, Jun Morimoto, Ami Matsubara, Nanami Shigeshita, Mari Yanagida, Miki Kato, Arisa Yamamoto, Akiko Tokuda, Kei Hanabishi, Miki Hayakawa, Koko Chojiko, Eriko Konaikawa, Raku Mizu, Sanae Shimada, Rie Asamura, Miku Shin’ya, Akiko Ijichi, Yasutomo Oka, Daiki Yamamoto, Takahiro Imai, Masaya Iwamoto, Ting Gaozi, Kiyoshi Abe, Yasusei Ikenaga, Kazutami Matsudaira, Nozomi Hirata, Masumi Yamamoto, Miho Hirano, Miharu Yokota, Niko Hirano, Wataboku, Mayumi Konno, Ushio Matsumoto, Chie Yoshii, Mitsuko Kuroki, Taro Uchida, Takato Yamamoto, Masanori Kuki, Azuma Okamoto, Hana, Shinji Nakahori, Suzume Uchida, Mao Hamaguchi, Miro Meguro, Atsuko Goto, Takuya Mitani, T Sato, Fūko Ueda