I know paper-cuts are historically a Chinese tradition, so I would assume that the Japanese borrowed it along with everything else they got. (And apparently so

I know paper-cuts are historically a Chinese tradition, so I would assume that the Japanese borrowed it along with everything else they got. (And apparently so: [1] says that traditional papercutting is called "kirigami" and they got it from China via a Korean monk around 600) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papercutting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papercutting