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It was originally a method of using hair to hold a samurai kabuto helmet steady atop the head in battle, and became a status symbol among Japanese society. In a traditional Edo-period chonmage, the top of the head is shaved. The remaining hair was oiled and waxed before being tied into a small tail folded onto the top of the head in the ...
Japanese culture began to flourish in its own right during the Heian period (794–1185 CE), as Japanese arts and culture flourished in their own right at the Imperial Court in Kyoto. With the turn away from Chinese culture, Japanese courtiers began to wear elaborate clothing – the jūnihitoe for women and the sokutai for men – in color ...
Prisoners commonly have their heads shaven to prevent the spread of lice, but it may also be used as a demeaning measure. Having the head shaved can be a punishment prescribed in law. [6] Nazis punished people accused of racial mixing by parading them through the streets with shaved heads and placards around their necks detailing their acts. [7]
They seize the head of the disabled or dead enemy, and placing one of their feet on the neck, twist their left hand in the hair; by this means, having extended the skin that covers the top of the head, they draw out their scalping knives, which are always kept in good order for this cruel purpose, and with a few dextrous strokes take off the ...
In the Edo period (1603–1867) of Japan, the Tokugawa Shogunate passed orders for Japanese men to shave the pate on the front of their head (the chonmage hairstyle) and shave their beards, facial hair and side whiskers. [20] This was similar to the Qing dynasty queue order imposed by Dorgon making men shave the pates on the front of their ...
A much smaller number of Western women also shave their heads, often as a fashion or political statement. Some women also shave their heads for cultural or social reasons. In India, tradition required widows in some sections of the society to shave their heads as part of being ostracized (see Women in Hinduism § Widowhood and remarriage). The ...
A group of women shaved their heads in support of a friend with cancer. "Fox & Friends" highlighted the heartwarming video, noting the woman, Gerdi McKenna, had no idea her friends planned to do ...
The Celtic tonsure, the exact shape of which is unclear from the sources, but in some way involved shaving the head from ear to ear. [10] The shape may have been semicircular, arcing forward from a line between the ears, but another popular suggestion, less borne out in the sources, proposes that the entire forehead was shaved back to the ears ...