Kanzashi

These drawings turned out completely different from what I'd planned! Originally I'd wanted to draw all the hairstyles worn by maiko and geiko, then is realised that HakugiMasshiro on Deviant Art had done such an amazing job of that already! By then I'd started a list of all the different types of kanzashi and hairstyling items used on the hair of maiko and geiko, and I found even more on the Immortal Geisha site, so I decided to draw these instead. I found lots of information about the…

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Kanzashi

@Baika-sai (Ume Festival) Kitano Tenmangu shrine, Kyoto. 花簪（flower ornament for Maiko-san） 【INFORMATION】 The article that put my photographs and comment was published in the site of PRICELESS.com of the MASTER-CARD. www.priceless.com/us/personal/en/picks/food/tea.html thank you.

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Here's a drawing I did some years back of all the different styles of seasonal kanzashi worn by the maiko. As you can see, there's a huge variety of spectacular styles! They are based on the flowers that are in bloom at that time of year, or on other seasonal items. Here are those for May and November in a bit more detail. You can see for May, on the left, flag irises in purple and pink, and on the right trailing wisteria flowers, also in shades of purple and pale pink, with silver…

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Kimono study, mostly of maiko because I love the lavish style!