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Yoshizawa was born on 14th March 1911, in Kaminokawa, Japan, to the family of a dairy farmer. When he was a child, he took pleasure in teaching himself origami. He moved into a factory job in Tokyo when he was 13 years old. His passion for origami was rekindled in his early 20s, when he was promoted from factory worker to technical draftsman.
Samuel L Randlett (January 11, 1930 – July 2023) was an American origami artist who helped develop the modern system for diagramming origami folds. Together with Robert Harbin he developed the notation introduced by Akira Yoshizawa to form what is now called the Yoshizawa-Randlett system (sometimes known as Yoshizawa-Randlett-Harbin system). [1]
The work of Akira Yoshizawa, of Japan, a creator of origami designs and a writer of books on origami, inspired a modern renaissance of the craft. He invented the process and techniques of wet-folding and set down the initial set of symbols for the standard Yoshizawa-Randlett system that Robert Harbin and Samuel Randlett later
Lillian Rose Vorhaus was born on October 24, 1898, in Manhattan, New York City. [1] She was a Jew of Austrian, Hungarian, Czech, and Polish ancestry. Her father was a Polish immigrant named Bernard Vorhaus, while her mother, Molly Grossman, was also born in New York.
Akira Yoshizawa: Origami master 2005-03-14 Died in hospital in Ogikubo, on his 94th birthday. Louis Zamperini: Olympic Athlete and World War 2 prisoner of war 2014-07-02 Died at his home in Los Angeles, California, at age 97.
Wet-folding is an origami technique developed by Akira Yoshizawa that employs water to dampen the paper so that it can be manipulated more easily. This process adds an element of sculpture to origami, which is otherwise purely geometric.
Yoshizawa (written: 吉沢, 吉澤 or 芳沢) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Akie Yoshizawa (吉沢 秋絵, born 1968), Japanese idol, singer and actress; Akiho Yoshizawa (吉沢 明歩, born 1984), Japanese gravure idol and AV actress; Akira Yoshizawa (吉澤 章, 1911–2005), Japanese origamist
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