ちぎりえ Chigiri-e - Great Falls Elementary School PTA

ちぎりえ
Chigiri-e
PRESENTED BY THE
JAPANESE CULTURAL COMMITTEE OF GREAT FALLS
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ちぎりえ・Chigiri-e
Chigiri-e is a Japanese art form that is
over 1,000 years old.
!  Chigiri-e is created by tearing and
pasting by hand pieces of colorful
handmade Japanese paper called
Washi.
!  What do the words mean?
!  ちぎる= Tear or Shred
!  え = Picture
! 
January 2015
Created by the Japanese Cultural Committee (JCC) of Great Falls Elementary School
わし・Washi
!  Washi
is a type of paper that was
invented in Japan between the
3rd and 6th Century.
!  Washi is used in many different
ways in Japan. It is used to make
art, clothing, furniture, weapons,
and various objects for everyday
and ceremonial use.
January 2015
Created by the Japanese Cultural Committee (JCC) of Great Falls Elementary School
わし（和紙）: Japanese Paper
January 2015
Created by the Japanese Cultural Committee (JCC) of Great Falls Elementary School
Kiyoshi Yamashita
• 
Famous vagabond artist in Japan. • 
Subject of a motion picture in 1959 and a long
running television series (1980-1997). • 
When Yamashita was three years old he
became very ill and as a result suffered some
neurological damage. • 
Bullied as a child because he was slow and
spoke with a speech impediment he acted out
and wounded a classmate with a knife. • 
As a result of this incident his parents enrolled
him in Yawata Gakuen (a school for the
mentally disabled) and it was there where he
started chigirie.
• 
When Kiyoshi Yamishita turned eighteen in 1940
he ran away in order to avoid being examined
for recruitment into the army. • 
This begins the period of his wanderings which
so captivated the Japanese
popular imagination. • 
When he was twenty-one he was forced to
submit to the army exam but was found to
be unacceptable for service. • 
He resumed to his vagabond lifestyle where he
would create his famous pictures which were
composed entirely of pasted bits of torn of
colored paper. Created by the Japanese Cultural Committee (JCC) of Great Falls
Elementary School
January 2015
Created by the Japanese Cultural Committee (JCC) of Great Falls
Elementary School
January 2015
Created by the Japanese Cultural Committee (JCC) of Great Falls
Elementary School
January 2015
Created by the Japanese Cultural Committee (JCC) of Great Falls
Elementary School
January 2015
Created by the Japanese Cultural Committee (JCC) of Great Falls
Elementary School
January 2015
ちぎりえをつくろう
Let’s Make Chigiri-e
January 2015
Created by the Japanese Cultural Committee (JCC) of Great Falls Elementary School