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The folding of two origami cranes linked together from the first known technical book on origami Hiden senbazuru orikata by Akisato Rito, published in Japan in 1798. The history of origami followed after the invention of paper and was a result of paper's use in society.
Origami (折り紙, Japanese pronunciation: or [oɾiꜜɡami], from ori meaning "folding", and kami meaning "paper" (kami changes to gami due to rendaku)) is the Japanese art of paper folding. In modern usage, the word "origami" is often used as an inclusive term for all folding practices, regardless of their culture of origin.
The orizuru (折鶴 ori-"folded," tsuru "crane"), origami crane or paper crane, is a design that is considered to be the most classic of all Japanese origami. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Japanese culture, it is believed that its wings carry souls up to paradise, [ 2 ] and it is a representation of the Japanese red-crowned crane , referred to as the ...
In 1954, his first monograph, Atarashii Origami Geijutsu (New Origami Art) was published. In this work, he established the Yoshizawa–Randlett system of notation for origami folds (a system of symbols, arrows and diagrams [3]), which has become the standard for most paperfolders. The publishing of this book helped Yoshizawa out of his poverty.
Koshiro Hatori has suggested that the fortune teller shape is originally European, rather than Japanese, [19] but its exact origin is unclear. Origami historian David Mitchell has found many 19th-century European sources mentioning a paper "salt cellar" or "pepper pot" (the latter often folded slightly differently).
An origami artist from Finland has completed a two and a half year project which used just one sheet of paper and took 109 hours of folding. Juho Konkkola, 24, from Jyväskylä, began planning his ...
Chinese paper folding, or zhezhi (), is the art of paper folding that originated in medieval China.. The work of 20th-century Japanese paper artist Akira Yoshizawa widely popularized the Japanese word origami; however, in China and other Chinese-speaking areas, the art is referred to by the Chinese name, zhezhi.
A protester holds up a large black power raised fist in the middle of the crowd that gathered at Columbus Circle in New York City for a Black Lives Matter Protest spurred by the death of George Floyd.