wareshinobu

I said good-bye to the wareshinobu hairstyle I had worn for the last two and a half years and began to wear the ofuku style, the everyday style of the senior maiko.

Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

I went to the hairdresser and had my hair done up in the wareshinobu style, the first hairstyle a maiko wears.

Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

I said good-bye to the wareshinobu hairstyle I had worn for the last two and a half years and began to wear the ofuku style, the everyday style of the senior maiko.

Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

I went to the hairdresser and had my hair done up in the wareshinobu style, the first hairstyle a maiko wears.

Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

They all wore the same hairstyle — the wareshinobu of a young apprentice geisha — and looked to me as if they knew much more about Gion than either Pumpkin or I would ever know.

Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur, 1957- 1997

I woke up at six o’clock in the morning, took a bath, and went to the hairdressers to have my hair done in the wareshinobu style.

Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

I woke up at six o’clock in the morning, took a bath, and went to the hairdressers to have my hair done in the wareshinobu style.

Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002