 As the name suggests, the style is thought to have originated, or at least become common, in the Imperial court during the Heian Period of Japanese history, when noble women would sometimes grow out their hair for their entire lives.The hime cut appears to date back to the "amasogi" shoulder-length hairstyle of the Heian period.When a woman turned 20, the hair around her ears was cut in a ceremony called "binsogi".