Kire is a fundamental Japanese religio-aesthetic term referring to a Buddhist “cutting off” of everyday life in the sense of “renunciation” or the oppression of the superfluous and is linked to Rinzai School of Zen Buddhism. The aesthetic “cut” called kire creates a new

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• Aesthetics
• Asian culture
• Philosophy
• Theatre in Japan
• Noh
• Japanese aesthetics