coiffeuses

“She also arranged to have one of the most exclusive coiffeuses in Town cut her hair, and she hired another woman to keep it styled.”

Daring Deception

“Not less than fourteen different ways of dressing the hair are practised by the coiffeuses of Izumo; but doubtless in the capital, and in some of the larger cities of eastern Japan, the art is much more elaborately developed.”

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series