TOKYO — Meet the world’s oldest feminine barber: She is 108 however the slender, white-haired Japanese lady has no plans to retire anytime quickly.
Shitsui Hakoishi says the formal recognition by the Guinness World Data this week introduced her a lot pleasure — apart from her glad clients, that’s.
She was introduced with an official certificates from the worldwide franchise Wednesday. Guinness World Data has a separate class for male barbers however the man who was licensed at age 107 in 2018, Anthony Mancinelli of the US, has died within the meantime, leaving Hakoishi as the one holder of the document.
Her profession has spanned 9 many years and she or he says she owes all of it to her clients.
Born on Nov. 10, 1916, to a household of farmers in Nakagawa, Hakoishi determined to turn out to be a barber at age 14 and moved to Tokyo, the place she honed her craft first as an apprentice.