Art Styles Long Hair Amine Girl Sitting on Floor
Answerman Why Is It Such A Big Deal When Anime Characters Cut Their Hair?
past Justin Sevakis, 
It seems similar a very common theme in anime where a character cuts her hair to signify moving on from something. This is a popular theme in the Monogatari series and was also recently shown in Gun Gale Online. Is it a big deal to change your pilus style in Japan?
This is one of those things that'southward more often than not washed for dramatic, symbolic issue in movies and anime. It'south useful visual symbolism, looks dramatic, and makes for smashing storytelling, even if it doesn't come up upwardly frequently in real life.
The meaning comes from the Edo period, when samurai would cutting off their top-knot (or chonmage) as a mode of stepping down from their position. The hair chopping was profoundly symbolic: that tiptop-knot was originally in that location to back up a helmet, but eventually it became a status symbol, and cutting it off signaled the end of that era of their life. After that, they would no longer enjoy a higher social status. This happened a lot during the Meiji Restoration, since the government was now paying samurai a rank-based stipend that many couldn't live on. Stepping away from their championship was the only way they could get another task.
Today, the only time this tradition comes upwardly is with sumo wrestlers, who still vesture the samurai-mode peak-knot, and cut it off ceremonially when a histrion retires.
Since about people with long hair in Japan are women, the cutting of pilus has taken on an boosted significant. Long hair is seen as cute, and long black pilus is a popular aesthetic (which fabricated it a specially potent tool for horror films in recent years). In the Heian catamenia (794 to 1185), ludicrously long, thick hair was particularly prized, and courtesans of the day grew information technology out so long it would drag on the ground. Men at the time were positively obsessed, and the long hair fetish continues to this twenty-four hours. Many bespeak to the enduring popularity of the volume The Tale of Genji for keeping the tradition fresh. (Genji famously would not allow his married woman to ceremonially cut her hair at i point in the book.)
Many women today maintain long hair when they're single, and so cut it shorter when they have kids, due to its impracticality. So in a style, that cutting of hair is a anniversary that mirrors that of an Edo menstruation Samurai: an end to an era of someone'southward life, and the beginning of another. It's a m gesture that is really merely noticed when people are looking for symbolism.
Of course, people cutting their hair off all the fourth dimension, and if they're known for having long pilus, cutting it short is a jarring change for everyone that knows them. A friend or co-worker might remark, "wow, are you lot quitting your chore or something?" joking that they were making a yard gesture by getting a haircut. But alas, in real life, a haircut is, in fact, usually but a haircut.
Sources:
- How Stuff Works - The End of the Samurai
- Japan Info - The Standard of Heian Dazzler: Incredibly Long Hair
- Wikipedia - Chonmage
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