Chikanobu Toyohara, Hairstyles of the Meiji Period, 1880s

Chikanobu Toyohara, Hairstyles of the Meiji Period, 1880s, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

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Toyohara Kunichika, Japanese Women with Fashionable Western Braided Hairstyles, 1877

Toyohara Kunichika, Japanese Women with Fashionable Western Braided Hairstyles, 1877, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

Up-to-date hairstyles, showing the popularity of Western fashions less than a decade after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 opened Japan to Western trade and ideas. --- Image by © Asian Art & Archaeology, Inc./CORBIS

Toyohara Kunichika, Japanese Women with Fashionable Western Braided Hairstyles, 1877

Toyohara Kunichika, Japanese Women with Fashionable Western Braided Hairstyles, 1877, originally uploaded by Gatochy.

Up-to-date hairstyles, showing the popularity of Western fashions less than a decade after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 opened Japan to Western trade and ideas. --- Image by © Asian Art & Archaeology, Inc./CORBIS