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鬢削ぎ

びんそぎbinsogi

noun

  1. cutting a person's sidelocks
  2. evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era)
  3. ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867)

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