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sho_hn ◴[] No.42181506[source]
This qualifies as one of those "make relatively mundane thing more exotic and interesting to Western audiences by slapping Japanese in front of it" posts, even though this is all done by a single individual artist who just happens to be Japanese, and not a particularly Japanese tradition.
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1. prewett ◴[] No.42187245[source]
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