Home › Words › K › kirikanekirikanekirikane means A Japanese decorative technique used for Buddhist statues and paintings, consisting of gold leaf, silver leaf or platinum leaf cut into lines, diamonds, and triangles.EtymologyBorrowed from Japanese 截金(きりかね) (kirikane), from 截(き)る (kiru, “to cut”) + 金(かね) (kane, “metal; money”).nounA Japanese decorative technique used for Buddhist statues and paintings, consisting of gold leaf, silver leaf or platinum leaf cut into lines, diamonds, and triangles.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).