In recent decades, with the introduction of artists and scholars, such as Kenjiro, Fujii Masukura, Yasuo Anyo, Inoue Wencang, modern Japanese paper-cutting art has been developed. Modern paper-cutting is used in single painting, group drawing, cartoon, cover, illustration, flower head and flower tail creation, calendar, advertisement, New Year card, printing and dyeing, fashion design, etc. For example, in order to enhance the China sentiment of the Japanese version of A Dream of Red Mansions, Shinjiro used paper-cutting as illustrations.

Modern Japanese paper-cut shows myths, folk stories, legends and natural scenery. Mount Fuji and cherry blossoms are common themes in landscape paper-cutting. Folk paper-cutting mainly describes typical traditional things in customs, such as "ghosts". "Ghost Walk" comes from the custom of Gonglu Peninsula in Akita Prefecture: On New Year's Eve, villagers walk in groups of three or five, dressed as ghosts and gods, wearing masks and hemp fibers, holding sharp weapons, and catching "bad children" from house to house. Every time I go to a house, I shout, "Where's the crying child?" ? Scared those urchins who are used to fighting to cry all over. At this time, the host rushed out to meet him and comforted him, saying, "My child has been obedient and has made progress in his studies ..."

Japanese paper cutters make good use of paper. Paper is an excellent handmade paper in Japan, which contains silk and hemp, is thin and thick, has bright colors and is very bright. The paper-cut made of this paper looks elegant, beautiful and expensive. Such as color paper-cut "carp flag".

Generally speaking, Japanese paper-cutting pays attention to poetry, artistic conception, romantic feelings, expression and description of sentimentality, which is in the same strain as Japanese poetry and literature. The taste is quiet, subtle and beautiful.

The development of Japanese paper-cutting is deeply influenced by Chinese paper-cutting, and modern Japanese paper-cutting is mainly developed with the Sino-Japanese friendly activities after World War II. Fujii Zengzang, director of the Oriental China Paper-cutting Research Institute, has forged a friendship with Tong Yin, president of the China Paper-cutting Society. Their contact made Mr. Xie unforgettable all his life. From 65438 to 0986, Mr. Xie's representative paper-cut art in Japan and Mr. Fujii's representative paper-cut art in China were published by Beijing People's Fine Arts Publishing House and Tokyo Sanshengtang Publishing House respectively. Chinese paper-cutting art is the product of their communication.