Do you know the Japanese anime movie Your Name (Kimi no Na wa)? In the film, the hero and the heroine each wear kumihimo as a bracelet and a hair tie. This key item shows us the basic theme of the story: musubi. It means the ties between people across time and place.
kumihimo is a traditional form of cord making. Thanks to the movie, not just in Japan but worldwide, young people became interested in kumihimo. Now some of them even make kumihimo.
How did the tradition of tying develop? How did musubi begin to express the bonds between people?
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