In 1873, the Emperor Meiji turned to bobbed hair, and men who tied traditional topknots for men decreased in numbers drastically and the western hair style and the shortcut hair style became widespread instead.
さらに明治6年明治天皇の断髪に至ると、伝統的な男髷を結う男性は激減し、洋髪やざんぎり頭が流行した。