With hairstyles becoming complicated during the middle of the Edo period, Kanzashi, along with combs and kogai, became the necessities of women while it disappeared from men's customs of clothing except for the purpose of court function.
江戸時代中期以降、髪形が複雑化するにつれて櫛や笄とともに女子の必需品となっていったが、宮中行事などを除いて男子の衣装風俗からは消えた。