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Gender Feminine
Usage Japanese, Popular Culture
Scripts 桐絵, 桐枝, 桐江, 霧江, 霧絵, etc.(Japanese Kanji) きりえ(Japanese Hiragana)
Meaning & History
From Japanese 桐 (kiri) meaning "paulownia, princess tree, empress tree, foxglove-tree" combined with 絵 (e) meaning "picture, painting". Other kanji combinations are also possible. This name is borne by the character Kirie Goshima (五島桐絵 Goshima Kirie), the protagonist of the horror manga series Uzumaki by Junji Ito. In the series, Kirie and her boyfriend Shūichi Saitō (斎藤秀一 Saitō Shūichi) witness their small town of Kurōzu-chō and its citizens become increasingly plagued by supernatural events involving spirals. They are haunted by how the spiral changes the people around them, and when the curse threatens to destroy the town, they resolve to escape together.