Kamikiri
Mythology & Folklore

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Kamikiri is a yokai depicted in Sawaki Suushi's The Illustrated Volume of One Hundred Demons (百怪図巻/Hyakkai Zukan) from 1737 CE. The creature has scissor-like hands an a bird face and was known to cut off women's hair. Hair-cuttings were often blamed on the yokai in the 1700s and 1800s, though it is suggested that many of these attacks were likely the work of fetishists that were instead assigned to a supernatural attacker.

Though in MAO the Kamikiri is blamed for attacks on women, historically its victims were said to be male and female, as it was not choosy about who's hair it targeted. The Kamikiri's appearance is not unlike the similar net-cutting yokai, Amikiri (網切).

Relevance to MAO

Kamikiri (髪切), who's name means "hair cutter", is introduced in MAO chapter 275. Takahashi depicts him just as he was shown in The Illustrated Volume of One Hundred Demons.