japanese

  1. Legendary Creatures - Mascot Cubic Kappa

    Jerom is a French artist who created papercrafts from 2007 to 2010 which he shared for free on his blog. His creations are in cubic and cartoon style and are often colorful. Here is a cubic kappa. Kappa is a yokai, a supernatural creature from Japanese folklore. It is an amphibian yokai and...
  2. Ancient Architecture Torii Gate

    Torii Gate papercraft A torii is a traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine, where it symbolically marks the transition from the mundane to the sacred.
  3. Paper Toys Sumo Fighters

    Sumo Fighters paper toy
  4. Light Box Japanese Sakura Landscape

    Japanese Sakura Landscape light box This is a digital template designed for you to create a fabulous lightbox. Lightbox will fill your room with warmth and coziness. The ZIP file contains 2 prepared template sizes: 210x297 mm (A4) 297x420 mm (A3) You can resize the template to fit your paper...
  5. Light Box Japan Night

    Light Box - Japan Night 7 JPG files 7 PDF files 7 SVG files Japan Night- Paper Cutting Light Box Template files The template includes 7 layers design files for printing. Each layer is 29.7 x 21 cm(A4 size paper). And, you need a shadow box frame with the inside surface of the same size. What...
  6. Modern Architecture Others [My Neighbor Totoro] Totoro Japanese House (Ghibli)

    [My Neighbor Totoro] Totoro Japanese House (Ghibli) Papercraft It's located in Sayama, Saitama Prefecture which is 1 or 1.5 hours away from Tokyo station. This area is called Totoro Forest and protected by Totoro no Furusato Foundation. A must-visit place is Kurosuke's House which is Japanese...
  7. Decorative Landscape Mouse Lampshade Lanter

    Landscape Mouse Lampshade Lanter papercraft ランプシェードになるペーパークラフトキット 灯籠錦鼠(とうろうにしきねずみ)--巻き風 A lampshade is a fixture that covers the lightbulb on a lamp to diffuse the light it emits. Lampshades can be made out of a wide variety of materials like paper, glass, fabric or stone. Usually conical or...
  8. Festival New year 2016

    New year set combo 2016 papercraft New Year is the time or day currently at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one. Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner. In the Gregorian calendar, the most widely used calendar system today, New Year occurs...
  9. Festival Hina Matsuri

    Hina Matsuri papercraft The tradition of playing with a girl's day doll is traced back to the Heian Period (794-1185), a period in Japanese history . In the old days, the Japanese believed that dolls could ward off bad spirits. So, they made dolls out of straw and dropped them into the river...
  10. Festival Hinakazari (Japanese Doll Festival)

    Hinakazari (Japanese Doll Festival) papercraft Hinamatsuri (雛祭り), also called Doll's Day or Girls' Day, is a religious (Shinto) holiday in Japan, celebrated on 3 March of each year. Platforms covered with a red carpet–material are used to display a set of ornamental dolls (雛人形, hina-ningyō)...
  11. Others Yoshiaki

    Yoshiaki papercraft Ashikaga Yoshiaki (足利 義昭, December 5, 1537 – October 19, 1597) was the 15th and final shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan who reigned from 1568 to 1573. His father, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, was the twelfth shōgun, and his brother, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, was the thirteenth shōgun.
  12. Festival [Hauntings From Japan] Owya - The Ghost Story Of Yotsuya

    [Hauntings From Japan] Owya - The Ghost Story Of Yotsuya papercraft The Ghost of Yotsuya (東海道四谷怪談, Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan) is a 1959 Japanese horror film directed by Nobuo Nakagawa. The film is based on the kabuki play Yotsuya Kaidan.[1] The was among the many horror films that Nakagawa adapted...
  13. Festival [Hauntings From Japan] Kasa-Obake - The Umbrella Ghost (Ma dù)

    [Hauntings From Japan] Kasa-Obake - The Umbrella Ghost papercraft Kasa-obake (Japanese: 傘おばけ) are a mythical ghost or yōkai in Japanese folklore. They are sometimes, but not always, considered a tsukumogami that old umbrellas turn into. They are also called "karakasa-obake" (から傘おばけ), "kasa-bake"...
  14. Others Katoributa (heo giữ nhang muỗi)

    Katoributa (heo giữ nhang muỗi) papercraft The zampirone is an incense made with compressed pyrethrum powders with a spiral shape which, burning very slowly, releases a repellent smoke for mosquitoes or other insects. It is widely used, especially in Asia, Africa, South America and Australia...
  15. Festival Others Haru kakudai

    Haru kakudai papercraft Traditionally, the Japanese celebrate the traditional New Year according to the Chinese calendar. However, in 1873, the Emperor ordered to change the time of Oshogatsu New Year to January 1 according to the solar calendar. "Japan abandoned the lunar calendar to use the...
  16. Musical Japanese Flutist

    Human Type Papercraft - Japanese Flutist Papercraft A shakuhachi (Japanese: 尺八, pronounced [ɕakɯhat͡ɕi]; Chinese: 尺八; pinyin: chǐbā) is a Japanese and ancient Chinese longitudinal, end-blown flute that is made of bamboo.