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noun - the Japanese art of folding paper
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Contemporary definitions for kirigami Expand. noun. a Japanese art of cutting and folding paper into decorative or representational forms. A chain of paper dolls is an example of kirigami. Word Origin. |
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The kirigami were esoteric documents of the Sōtō school in medieval Japan which * ...reflect a creative use of traditional kōan records integrated with popular religious themes such as devotion to local gods and the exorcism of demonic spirits." * For instance, * * Various kirigami present the deity of Hakusan as a form of Izanagi, of Kannon, or a dragon-king." * Some kirigami * * ...describe talismans that women had to carry or swallow to purify themselves from blood defilement when they attended religious ceremonies." * Kirigami were also * * ...'notes' or 'memos' transmitted from master to disciple together with oral or esoteric teachings; they included instructions in the various functions of a temple priest, including memorial services and necrologies, both of which were conducted with the explicit aim of perpetuating social discrimination." * Bernard Faure writes that the kirigami were * * ...documents whose diagrammatic aspect and ritual function bring to mind the prophetic scriptures (chanwei) of Confucian imperial ideology and Daoist talismans studied by Anna Seidel. * Steven Heine writes that, * * ...[the] tradition of using kirigami was widespread in diverse medieval apprenticeship programs." |