Furthermore, not only Confucians but also other thinkers selected this hairstyle; thus, Sohatsu became fashionable among young people with the thought of Sonno Joi (anti-foreign imperialism) at the end of the Edo period.
また、儒者に限らず他の思想家なども結い、幕末頃には尊皇攘夷思想の若者の間に流行している。