Title: Dai Nihon fujin sokuhatsu zukai
(Illustration of Women’s Hairstyles of Imperial Japan)
Published: 1885(Meiji)
Size: 71×36.7 cm
The new hairstyles as being healthy and benefitting the nation in the Meiji era.
In order to establish diplomacy on an equal footing with Western society, the government began to promote the westernization of people.