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"Green Eyebrows" (color illustrations and hardcover) is a collection of prose essays by the Japanese painter Uemura Shoen, who is world-famous for his beauty paintings. It is the first time it has been published in China. This book consists of two volumes: "Green Eyebrows" and "Green Eyebrows Supplements". The former includes 39 articles such as "The Story of the Eyebrows", "Dance of the Preface", "Beauty of Simplicity" and "Hokusai's Illustrations", etc.; The latter includes 34 articles such as "Hotfly", "Beauty Paintings at the Imperial Exhibition", "Hand Paintings of Ukiyo-e Painters", and "The Way of Painting and Women". There is also a preface written by his grandson Junyuki Uemura, who is also a famous painter. This book takes "Green Eyebrows" as its title, and cuts into the art of creating beauty paintings that she has studied diligently for decades. It analyzes her own art practice and artistic intention, and her in-depth and systematic study of Japanese traditional culture including Japanese painting and clothing and makeup, which has high cultural and artistic value. The writing is elegant and concise, and has its own growth record, such as studying painting at school and the painting experience of specific works. The writing is simple, the wording is accurate, the writing style is honest, and the writing is like the painting and the person.