I was looking at the Amigurumi Exhibit at Resobox. I came upon this infor that was quite interesting.
Amigurumi stems from animism, a philosophy in the foundations of many Japanese traditions and customs. Animism is the belief that gods belong to everything: water, food, nature, buildings and houses, even technology. In Japanese, this is called “Yaoyorozu no Kami”. In fact, Japanese people often put eyes, arms, and legs onto non-human objects and give them imaginary lives in order to feel closer to these objects and show them respect as co-existing partners in this world.
If you substitute the word "gods", with the word "heart", you get a one of the key concepts in the Kingdom Hearts universe. That reminds me of what Xemnas said in Kingdom Hearts 3D that everything in the KH universe has a heart. I also think that the concept could be seen
in Xion. I mean she was just a mere "puppet" that showed signs of a growing heart. So I wonder what other concepts in Kingdom Hearts were drawn from Shintoism or Japanese philosophy.
I was looking at the Amigurumi Exhibit at Resobox. I came upon this infor that was quite interesting.
If you substitute the word "gods", with the word "heart", you get a one of the key concepts in the Kingdom Hearts universe. That reminds me of what Xemnas said in Kingdom Hearts 3D that everything in the KH universe has a heart. I also think that the concept could be seen
in Xion. I mean she was just a mere "puppet" that showed signs of a growing heart. So I wonder what other concepts in Kingdom Hearts were drawn from Shintoism or Japanese philosophy.
Edited by Marion Doe