Cutting the thread - Kyogire

Japanese: 経切 - きょうぎれ
Cutting the thread - Kyogire

...As a result, scrolls written in ancient script were cut up more frequently, and as this trend grew, experts such as Kohitsu Ryosa, who appraised handwriting, appeared. Most of the ancient scripts are divided into utakiri, bunkiri, and sutra-kiri, with the majority being utakiri. Utakiri include imperially or privately selected waka anthologies, utaawase poetry contests, and fragments from the Wakan Roeishu. Bunkiri include stories, legends, models, treatises on waka poetry, Chinese classics, and letters. Sutra-kiri include copies of sutras, vinaya, and Buddhist treatises. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "keikiri" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そのために古筆巻物の切られることも激しくなり,その流行にともない,筆跡の鑑定をおこなう古筆了佐のような専門家もあらわれた。古筆切はそのほとんどが歌切,文切,経切からなり,ことに歌切が多い。歌切は勅撰あるいは私撰の和歌集,歌合(うたあわせ),《和漢朗詠集》の断簡など,文切は物語,縁起,手本,歌論書,漢籍,書状消息など,経切は写経および律,論の仏書などである。…

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