Katsuyama hairstyle

A type of hairstyle for women. It originated with the prostitute Katsuyama in the Genroku period (1688-1704). After the ban on wearing masks was issued in the early Edo period, both men and women began to walk around bare-faced, and naturally various hairstyles arose. Many of them began with prostitutes, but Katsuyama was also a prostitute who moved to Yoshiwara when the ban on bathhouse girls was imposed and became all the rage. The hairstyle is done by making a large loop at the root and incorporating the ends into the topknot. As the topknot has a round loop, it is also known as the Maruwamage, which is an abbreviation of the Marumage. In the original style, the loop was long vertically, but in later times it became long horizontally. As it became popular, even the wives of feudal lords wore it, and it became a representative hairstyle for wives from samurai to peasants.

[Takeshi Endo]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

女性髪形の一種。元禄(げんろく)時代（1688～1704）遊女勝山から始まった髪形。江戸時代初期に覆面の禁止令が発布されてから、男女とも素顔で歩くようになり、自然にいろいろな髪形を生じた。その多くは、遊女から始まったものであるが、勝山も湯女(ゆな)の禁令に伴って吉原に移り住み、一世を風靡(ふうび)した遊女である。結い方は、根のところで大きな輪をつくって、毛先を髷(まげ)に組み入れる。髷の輪が丸いので、別名の丸輪髷(まるわまげ)を略して丸髷といった。当初の形は輪が縦に長いものであったが、後世には横長となった。流行に伴い、諸侯の夫人までがこれを結い、武士以下百姓に至るまで女房の髪形を代表するようになった。

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