Hair Accessories

【Hair Accessories】

The main decorative things for women in Edo were hair accessories, such as combs, hair sticks and hair pins. Especially, prostitutes decorated themselves with lots of hair accessories. Prostitutes at brothels in Shimabara, Kyoto, who were known for their luxurious outfits, wore 6kg worth of hair accessories. As the Japanese hairstyles got more artful, so did accessories and they made black hair look fabulous.