鬢 - sideburns

pomade; pomatum; hair oil

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

itobin; 17th century male hairstyle (shaved forehead, chignon, sideburns thinned to the size of a thread)

beautiful woman (metaphorical)

albacore (Thunnus alalunga); germon

person sporting an itobin hairstyle

Edo-period hairstyle for the common man (the entire head shaved just above the ear, with the remainder tied up in the back)

hair at the temples; hair at the sides of the head

binkiri; Edo-period hairstyle with a lock of hair running down from the temples and hanging over the ears

Edo-period hair style with inflated hair at the sides; lantern sideburns

bow-shaped whale-bone or copper hairpins used to increase the volume on the side of a woman's hair (Edo period)

sideburns; hair at the sides of the head