This became an easy way to identify such men. Ronin, samurai who did not serve a Lord, were not required to shave their heads. : 222Ī shaven pate (the sakayaki) became required of the samurai classes by the early Edo period, and by the 1660s, all men, commoner or samurai, were forbidden from wearing beards, with the sakayaki deemed mandatory. : 217 This change was also enforced during the Japanese invasion of Joseon (1592–1598), where some Japanese commanders forced the submitted Koreans to shave their heads to this hairstyle, as a method of converting their identities to that of Japanese.
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īetween the 1580s (towards the end of the Warring States period, 1467–1615) and the 1630s (the beginning of the Edo period, 1603–1867), Japanese cultural attitudes to men's hair shifted where a full head of hair and a beard had been valued as a sign of manliness in the preceding militaristic era, in the ensuing period of peace, this gradually shifted until a beard and an unshaven pate were viewed as barbaric, and resistant of the peace that had resulted from two centuries of civil war. To secure the crown in place, the hair would be tied near the back of the head.
During this period, aristocrats wore special cap like crowns as part of their official clothing. The origins of the chonmage can be traced back to the Heian period. A Japanese barbershop in the 19th century
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