Kirigami (Soto Zen)
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The kirigami were esoteric documents of the Sōtō school in medieval Japan which
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...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."[1]
For instance,
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Various kirigami present the deity of Hakusan as a form of Izanagi, of Kannon, or a dragon-king."[2]
Some kirigami
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...describe talismans that women had to carry or swallow to purify themselves from blood defilement when they attended religious ceremonies."[3]
Kirigami were also
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...'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."[4]
Bernard Faure writes that the kirigami were
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...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.[5]
Steven Heine writes that,
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...[the] tradition of using kirigami was widespread in diverse medieval apprenticeship programs."[6]
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