Talk:Mon-Kiri

This appears to be identical to Kirigami - suggest we merge them with note of alternate word. --Bookgrrl 04:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

My impression is mon-kiri may be a sub-set of kirigami
Am no expert. Primary source is "Mon-Kiri" by Isao Honda, 1959. This book is instructions for folding paper into triangles or rectangles, and patterns to trace and cut. This is similar to the paper snowflakes, or chains of paper dolls made by U.S. children. The folds in the paper replicate the cuts made producing symmetrical patterns in the opened & flattened end product.

Honda's book has only a very brief forward. In it, the author suggest that the name "mon-kiri" means "crest making". A mon is a japanese family crest, often a simple graphic with radial symmetry.

My knowledge of kirigami comes only from title searches that suggest kirigami is used broadly include: origami folded paper including cuts to the paper; 3-dimensional pop-ups made by cutting and folding paper; paper cut decoratively with no folds made; and what is called mon-kiri by Honda. OjiDog 05:26, 12 January 2007 (UTC)