geisha hairstyle

                                         
Maiko: When she reaches Shikomi minarai stage before his debut as a maiko, her hairmust have grown long enough to enable him the elaborate hairstyles that will be made with your own hair. In developing these hairstyles, they used various decorative elements calledkanzashi. These forks are as flat-lined in colorful silks, multiple shapes, sizes and colors, and they have a large collection for each month of the year and for each station. Also used, pieces of silk ribbons Kanoko calls, and the dome-Kanoko miokuri and that are a kind of combs, rectangular in red, gold and bronze. The first hairstyle that carries the maiko is called Wareshinobu


When you have passed or have mizuage her danna, the style of the maiko hairstylechanges to Ofuku that although Wareshinobu style looks in the rear, is replaced by Kanokochirimen-teragami, which is a triangular shaped belt that takes inserted into the top of thebun, instead of interleave in the bow as Wareshinobu style.

Apart from these two hairstyles, the maiko used three. The Katsuyama or marumage, which is used in summer, and that it was known since the seventeenth century. This will take in the festivities of Gion in July, it was the same hairstyle worn by married women in Edo andShoowa Eras. The yakko-shima is reserved for special occasions such as festivals, banquets, and especially for the New Year festival.