paper-cuttings

Updated: May 24, 2025

So soon as a baby girl learns something in the way of woman 's work sewing, or weaving, or knitting, or broidering, she brings her first successful effort to the temple as an offering to the gentle divinity, 'whose eyes are beautiful, she 'who looketh down above the sound of prayer. Even the infants of the Japanese kindergarten bring their first work here pretty paper-cuttings, scissored out and plaited into divers patterns by their own tiny flower-soft hands.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : First Series