This hairstyle was worn by the girls called 'Okosho' (it is different from child servants of samurai family called "Kosho," who paged to daimyo [Japanese feudal lord] and so on), who was aged between five or six and 12 years old and attended on a daughter of a high-ranking samurai or a court noble.
特に身分の高い武家や公家の姫君の側近くに仕える、五、六歳から十二歳ぐらいの「お小姓」（大名などに仕える武家の少年使用人である小姓とは別）と呼ばれる少女によく結われた髪型。