Hair as a medium for communication

Hair as a medium for communication - Page 1 - Jennifer Ball, www.OriginofAlphabet.com

Ones hairstyle projects ones status. Female hair telegraphs availability. Certain styles indi-cate not yet: this wearer is too young to bear children. Early communication was often about a females ability to carry offspring.

Hair as a medium for communicationby Jennifer Ball

Hair as a medium for communication - Page 2 - Jennifer Ball, www.OriginofAlphabet.com Hair as a medium for communication - Page 3 - Jennifer Ball, www.OriginofAlphabet.com

A chaste look, nothing dangly.Momoware


Only slightly suggestive.

Yuiwata


What do you suppose well matured means?

Shimada


No particular age...

Once married, her age appears to be immaterial: shes taken.

Marumage


Men in womens clothing and people falling down: the under-pinnings of comedy.Shitajimage


Very suggestive, phallic-esque hair.

Tekomai


I have had this doll since I was 6 (1964). It made a lasting im-pression upon me. It also suggests a coherence in my life that I still have some of the original rice paper even though the doll is at least 41 years old.

originalrice

paper

Inside of the lid of the box


Similar Japanese wig dolls found on the internet.

MizuageFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:Mizuage (?, lit. hoisting from water) was a ceremony undergone by a Japanese maiko (apprentice geisha) to signify her coming of age. When the older geisha (in charge of the maikos training) considered the young maiko ready to come of age, the topknot of her hair was symboli-cally cut.

During the Edo period, courtesans undergoing mizuage were sponsored by a patron who had the right of taking their virginity.[1] Mizuage has also historically been connected with loss of virginity of maiko,[2][3] but this practice became illegal in 1959.[4] Afterward, a party would be held for the maiko.

According to anthropologist Liza Dalby, mizuage was an important initiation to womanhood and the geisha world. Mizuage gave way to the next stage of training, the senior maiko. Once the mizuage patrons function (of deflowering the young maiko) was served, he was to have no further relations with the girl.[5]

The money acquired for a maikos mizuage was a great sum and it was used to promote her debut as a geisha,[6] but this was not considered by geisha to be an act of prostitution.[citation needed]

Mineko Iwasaki, a geisha that Arthur Golden met while writing Memoirs of a Geisha described mizuage in her autobiography as being an initiation party, symbolized on the geisha-to-be by a change in hairstyle rather than the loss of virginity.[7] It is a celebration of the passage of girl (maiko) to woman (geisha).

References[edit]1 Seigle, Cecilia Segawa (1993). Yoshiwara: the glittering world of the Japanese courtesan. [Honolulu]: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-1488-6.page 179.2 Melissa Hope Ditmore (2006). Encyclopedia of prostitution and sex work. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-32969-9., page 184 [1]3 Japan encyclopedia. Belknap Pr of Harvard U. 2005. ISBN 0-674-01753-6.page 2344 Reynolds, Wayne; Gallagher, John (2003). Geisha : A Unique World of Tradition, Elegance and Art. PRC Publishing. ISBN 1-85648-697-4. page 1355 Liza Crihfield Dalby. Geisha. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 19986 Lesley Downer. Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World. (London: Headline Book Publishing, 2000) pages 256-266.7 Mineko Iwasaki. Geisha, A Life. (New York: Washington Square Press, 2002) page 206-210.

Topknot is cut as a prelude to deflowering

Hair as a medium for communication - Page 18 - Jennifer Ball, www.OriginofAlphabet.com

I preferred my geisha with a sword, which I bought in San Francisco in 1970, when I was 12 and in seventh grade.

Hair as a medium for communication

Documents

Transcript of Hair as a medium for communication