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Geisha and Maiko Hair Styles
- Maiko hair styles -
Shikomi and Minarai time
right: the Shikomi (more here )
Each girl begins her training as Shikomi. In this (sample) year she lets her hair grow to it can later tweak correctly.
"The wareshinobu style '
wareshinobu
After this time, it becomes a Minarai (learning Maiko) for about 1-2 months. It is the first time that she is wearing a real costume and her first maiko hairstyle. This style is called "wareshinobu" and will always, as the other styles too, styled by a traditional master barber.
The hair is first smoothed with hot tongs (like a flat iron). Then a kind of pomade / Paste comes to the hair (-bintsuke abura called) so the hair will last longer (about one week). Therefore, the hair has been such a strong finish. Japanese hair is indeed thicker than European, but still uses the barber here an extra hairpiece ( ketabo called) - it simply creates yet more volume.
ketabo
Then the hair is lifted up baggy and tied at the crown to a kind of bun and the hair is mentioned above is a red silk ribbon with a pattern of fine white dots ( Kanoko ) herumdrapiert. But so that you can still see the front and back of a piece of silk ribbon, as shown in the picture above.
So the hair is roughly about a week, the Minarai learn in the traditional omaku or makura sleep. A omaku is a rectangular, lacquered wooden block on which a small pillow is. You sleep with your neck out. Despite all this, the hair at least every 5 days to be renewed, if only because of hygiene.
omaku / makura
course will then decorate the finished style with hair jewelry. Such maiko kanzashi hair ornaments called . The flowers of the kanzashi hairpins (hana-kanzashi called) address and the subject of the kimono, by month and year.
Maiko with lush hana-kanzashi
Maiko-time
The Misedashi (Maiko debut) sets the time period as Minarai while the phase begins as a young maiko. They will wear for 3 more years wareshinobu hairstyle . This style is anyway one of the most elaborate hairstyles ever. It also says that this hair style brings the youthfulness of the girl the best advantage, if only by the colorful trim Kanzashi needles.
But at formal occasions such as the Misedashi with the maiko kanzashi not only, but also the so-called bira bira kanzashi- (Silver Wing), in which the coat of arms ( mon called) of okiya (geisha house) is incorporated with.
bira-bira kanzashi
addition, hair pins made from coral, jade, silver or opal, and tortoise shell ornaments ( chirikan called). The Chirikan with the Maiko only once - during the first 3 days of their debuts Misedashi. Thus, they are something special.
As I said with the young maiko the same hairstyle as in their Minarai time. To distinguish a maiko from a Minarai with the wareshinobu hairdo, can you look just the respective obi (kimono belt) at. The Maiko is called a darari Obi . He is a total of 7 meters long and is bound so that both ends hanging down for long. The obi is Minarai a half shorter, so he calls himself handarari Obi (han - half).
Minarai the left you can see, the right Maiko
"The ofuku style '
With about 18 years ago changed the Maiko their wareshinobu hairstyle to ofuku Hairstyle . It's the hair style for older maiko. Viewed from the front, both styles very similar, however, the Kanoko silk ribbon rear replaced by a Chirimen tegarami band in the form of a triangle.
ofuku
For the older Maiko there are two other styles that are worn on special festivals and events. These are called yakko / Yakko-Shimada and Katsuyama .
"The yakko / Yakko-Shimada-style"
yakko / Yakko-Shimada
The yakko hairstyle is the New Year period to Setsubun (beginning of spring on February 3) and hassaku hard worn on the 1st of August. For the New Year period will carry the kanzashi maiko in the form of a dove with only one eye and dried rice ears. A customer can then paint with a black marker to the missing eye. Of course you also have to other conventional kanzashi .
New Year Kanzashi
"The Katsuyama-style"
Katsuyama
is Every July, during the Gion festival (matsuri region called) the Katsuyama-hairstyle with kanzashi, representing the summer, carried. The name for this style comes from a well-known Tayuu (high-class prostitute), with the same name that lived in the Edo period (17th century). Also, this style was often worn by married women to the Edo period until the early Showa era. Then it was replaced by a new hair style called sokuhatsu .
sokuhatsu
is the latest hairstyle Maiko
"The Jacket / sakkou style '
jacket / sakkou
The sakkou hairstyle the last hair of each Maiko. At that time, the maiko usually around 21 years old. This hair style shows that the erika is imminent, the Maiko so soon becomes a geisha. When sakkou hairstyle, the hair is lifted up and individual strands are twisted into circles and pinned. The previously bulky upper hair was cut off and thus depends on the screwed-strands over it ( hashi no ke called)
In the late Edo period, this hair style worn mostly by married women of the commercial upper class until the beginning of the Meiji era. There was slicing the top hair done by the husband, as a sign of her devotion to her husband and his family. When will the Maiko-san of the o-kaa- (Head the geisha house) over.
The kanzashi worn for the sakkou hairstyle, consist of the right-hana kanzashi , a bira bira kanzashi-, tortoiseshell kanzashi- and tama-kan/bira-kan (kanzashi, which are set with precious stones). The teased hair at the front end is decorated with red ribbons. There
More Maiko hair styles
In Pontocho district it for another 5 maiko hairstyles to Sakkou hairstyles. They are called umemodoki / osomemage , oshidori no hina , Osafune , mizuguruma and ikiguruma . Besides these, there are other hairstyles modern hairstyles that are kikugasane , Oshun call and yuiwata . These are worn in Pontocho. Unfortunately, there is no more information about the individual styles.
yuiwata
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