traditional married woman's hairstyle with an oval chignon on top
A classic Japanese hairstyle for married women, featuring a rounded chignon. Now mostly seen in period dramas or formal kimono settings.
In period dramas, married women often wear the marumage hairstyle.
Edo-period men's hairstyle with a rounded topknot
Historical term for a men's hairstyle during the Edo period. Rarely encountered outside historical contexts.
In photos from her youth, my grandmother is seen with her hair in a marumage.
One of the men's hairstyles in the Edo period was the marumage.
Standard kanji spelling for this traditional hairstyle.
Search-only form mixing kanji and kana.
Kana spelling, useful when the kanji are obscure.
Alternate kanji spelling, less common.
From 丸 (round) + 髷 (topknot/chignon), describing the rounded shape of the hairstyle. The reading まるわげ is an older variant.