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An animistic God or spirit in the Shinto religion of Japan.
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The metaphysical causal generator of motion, life, or divinish aura.
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(papercraft) A basic origami paper, usually printed with a colour or pattern on one side.
Examples of kami in a Sentence
Hirata answered by anticipation the modern reproach against Shinto, founded on the absence of any definite morality connected with it, by laying down the simple rule, " Act so that you need not be ashamed before the Kami of the unseen."
The Japanese Kami are the " higher " powers, the superi,.
Such were some of the deities of the Indigitamenta already compared with the Japanese Kami.
The word origami comes from the Japanese words "ori" which means folding and "kami" which means paper.
The word origami is a combination of two Japanese words, "ori" which means paper, and "kami" which means folding.
The same word does not appear elsewhere; but we find its two parts separately, such as Gurung pre, Murmi pre, Taksya phre and Takpa gyet, Serpa gye, Garo chet, &c. Rta (horse) is reduced to to in speech, but we find ri, rhyi, roh in Sokpa, Horpa, Tochu, Minyak, and td, tah, teh, t'ay in Lhopa, Serpa, Murmi, Kami, Takpa, &c., both with the same meaning.
Just as the emperor is kami, and provincial officers of rank, so also mountains, rivers, the sea, thunder, winds, and even animals like the tiger, wolf or fox, are all kami.7 The spirits of the dead also become kami, of varying character and position; some reside in the temples built in their honour; some hover near their tombs; but they are constantly active, mingling in the vast multitude of agencies which makes every event in the universe, in the language of Motowori (1730-1801), the act of the Kami.