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Sakkou is the final hairstyle a maiko wears before she "turns the collar" and becomes a geiko. Sakkou used to be worn by brides during the Edo era. According to Mary from @geishakai this style stood for the dedication for the woman's future husband. Geiko adapted this hairstyle to show hair to show their devotion to the traditional arts, as a wife would to her husband. It is a symbol of the marriage with the traditional world of the teahouses.

Sakkou kanzashi are very personal but mostly show auspicious motifs, such as pine, cranes, the treasure ship and others which will help in making their future career a prosperous one.

This particular sakkou is seemingly simple, five pine branches and three tiny cranes. But the whole was made all by hand, every needle separately—all 120 of them. I chose red and green instead of just green to give it a pop of colour.

Description

Sakkou is the final hairstyle a maiko wears before she "turns the collar" and becomes a geiko. Sakkou used to be worn by brides during the Edo era. According to Mary from @geishakai this style stood for the dedication for the woman's future husband. Geiko adapted this hairstyle to show hair to show their devotion to the traditional arts, as a wife would to her husband. It is a symbol of the marriage with the traditional world of the teahouses.

Sakkou kanzashi are very personal but mostly show auspicious motifs, such as pine, cranes, the treasure ship and others which will help in making their future career a prosperous one.

This particular sakkou is seemingly simple, five pine branches and three tiny cranes. But the whole was made all by hand, every needle separately—all 120 of them. I chose red and green instead of just green to give it a pop of colour.