From contemporary painters — Yasunari Ikenaga, whose book of paintings has brought him wide attention; Toko Okamoto, whose work has been called ukiyo-e painting for our own time; Arisa Nakahara, whose trim, brilliant young women have won her a fast-growing following — through to bijinga by Kitagawa Utamaro and a hanging scroll by Kitani Chigusa.

How have the painters of Japan drawn the face of a woman?