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The Komeijis Midnight shenanigans

     This hairstyle is an elegant blend of two styles: the Utsuo Sakikougai and the Katsuyama. This hairstyle is similar to Osafune, with the difference that the topknot is slightly lower, as expected of an older mature lady. This style would be worn by a young aristocrat, such as the wife of a shogun or a high-ranking samurai. She would have worn this immediately after marriage and before her first pregnancy.

 This hairstyle is a combination of two styles: the Katsuyama and the Utsuo Sakikougai. In the second half of the Edo period, this was hairstyle worn by married women in Kyoto and Osaka during very important formal events.

     This hairstyle was the hairstyle worn by women in the Kyoto-Osaka region as a sign of their newlywed wife status. Maiko of Kyoto and Osaka were also known to wear this hairstyle during the process of their erikae. This hairstyle was considered the equivalent of Tokyo’s Marumage (丸髷). The color of the twisted knot varied by age and came in colors like pink, light blue and mauve. In Kyoto and Osaka, it was a hairstyle considered both elegant and unique.