The finished product of kamikiri, the traditional Japanese performing art of paper cutting, which will be performed on April 18 at Purdue University by Hayashiya Niraku. (Photo provided by Kazumi ...

As his pseudonym 我流切紙人 garyukirigaminin (literally, "self-styled paper-cutter") indicates, Japanese paper artist Toshiaki Kawasaki 川﨑利昭 (@garyukirigami) takes a unique approach to the art of ...

Borrowing from the Japanese paper-cutting art of kirigami, researchers have made specially cut tape that is 10 times as sticky as uncut tape but is also easy to pull free and reuse (ACS Appl. Mater.

Researchers used kirigami, the art of Japanese paper cutting and folding, to develop ultrastrong, lightweight materials that have tunable mechanical properties, like stiffness and flexibility. These ...