MY FAVORITE OLD JAPANESE HAIR STYLE
Image by Okinawa Soba
There are more than enough examples of old Japanese hairstyles on my photostream — from the earliest days of the Meiji era, through the post earthquake days of the Taisho era.
I’m a "hair down" kind of guy, but when it comes to seeing it up, the above photo taken around 1910 shows my favorite style of all (with apologies to Amy Winehouse for not choosing her hairstyle. I believe Amy based her own bee-hive bun on an F5 Tornado photograph)
I thought that this style does NOT appear on this image : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2766058735/
BUT, Japanese Hairstyle Wizard ‘KUMIYANAGI" has checked in to say that it does :
"………The hair going all the way down the neck has NOTHING TO DO with what the hairstyle is called. As I’m sure you know the nape of the neck was considered to be erotic. By no lesser means, in the Edo period a prim woman would cover her neck
with her juban, but by the Taisho period women were covering it with their hair.
A style like this ( www.japaneseukiyo-e.com/ToriiKotondo2.jpg ) is
considered more adult (and modest) than a hairstyle like this
( www.jeis-kanoh.co.jp/tencho/images/nihon/kiroku/04otome_0… ) even though they are essentially the same SHIMADA style…….."
You can learn a lot if you hang around with KUMIYANAGI. I suppose I’ll just have to call this the "Neck-covering Shimada style" !!!
In any case, the extra bundle of silken black hair that falls down her neck serves to make an almost straight line with the front of her up-swept bangs, forming a perfect incline for the beautiful knot than answers the design on top.
I’m sure this pretty girl had more proposals than she could handle.
Here’s another image that utilizes the same hairstyle :
www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2815167805/
Although the above hair is "soft and natural", here’s a much "harder and greasier" view that might be the same type of style, only photographed from the back :
www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2782256713/
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17 responses to MY FAVORITE OLD JAPANESE HAIR STYLE Photos
Very graceful lines and elements throughout this image.
really pretty. i love her broweyes. Bigs but nice.and the hair…buff
OS, after a bit of googling around I found Shimada and Taka Shimada hairstyle:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimada_(hairstyle)
wapedia.mobi/en/Shimada_(hairstyle)
Might be wrong tho…
very very beautiful
Another wonderful photo from you!
But I’m curious: do you shot these photos yourself or they are scanned old photos?
F.
Hi there (-∞;+∞)
Buried deep within my profile which folks seldom read (heck, even I don’t read it!) is the following obscure paragraph :
"……..Rather than post my own standard and personal images taken during the past 35 years in Okinawa (and the rest of Japan), I thought it would be more interesting to post some seldom seen and long forgotten pictures of Japan by photographers who are no longer with us. With only a few noted exceptions, everything you see on my thread was photographed between 1862 and 1930, with the majority falling during the 1885-1912 last half of the Meiji-era……"
Your good comment has reminded me that I should be more careful about adding dates to the captions. I do most of the time (?) but missed this one. Will fix it now.
All the photos are pulled from either flat-bed scans or digital camera copies of the original photographs. All of the images in the T. ENAMI and T. TAKAGI slide sets were shot in my kitchen in Japan using a cheap light box and a small, hand-held digital camera. The prints were all scanned from the originals using three different scanners over the years. Since joining flicker, I have been using both old stored files, and new-for-flickr scans.
There are no "web-harvested" images. Only one comes from a credited book and is posted in a "THEN AND NOW" set for comparison purposes".
I hope that answers you question. (I’m sure it does)
R.
MY FAVORITE OLD JAPANESE HAIR STYLE Photos
W10. I’m running it by Japanese hair expert, Kumiyanagi. I’ll let you know what she says, and she might post her comments here.
[UPDATE : Kumiyanagi has come to the rescue. Comments have been added to the caption. Thanks, Kumi.]
This is a lovely portrait of a beautiful woman. Like you OS I prefer this softer less formal style of hair.
Both this and the next image are so rich, in so many ways, of course, this is a comment from an old cameraman, who loves women, thank again for publishing. K.
I love this picture, you can almost smell the sweet scent of the rose she is holding ^_^ .
thanks for the explaination.
I really appreciate your kind of historical work.
F.
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Seen on your photo stream. (?)
mmm I must see if I could do that with my hair. Nice picture
Um, not that it matters but I’m a she.
You are a……S H E ??????????????????????
Well, that certainly DOES matter. Your profile doesn’t say either way, so I just went to "default".
I have been brainwashed by long experience on Okinawa, where all of the professional hairdressers that I knew (who worked for stage and screen to make all of the old hairstyles) were every one of them….. M E N !
Thanks for getting me out of my rut of masculine pronouns.
MY FAVORITE OLD JAPANESE HAIR STYLE Photos
Love your stream
Thank you, _Vorfas_
I Love It!
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