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That is why one thousand origami cranes (千羽鶴, senbazuru, lit. ' one thousand cranes ' ) are made, one for each year. In some stories, it is believed that the cranes must be completed within one year and they must all be made by the person (or group of people) who will make the wish at the end.
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 ...
Kōshō Uchiyama – Sōtō priest, origami master, and abbot of Antai-ji near Kyoto, Japan, and author of more than twenty books on Zen Buddhism and origami Miguel de Unamuno – Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher who devised many new models and popularized origami in Spain and South America.
It is not certain when play-made paper models, now commonly known as origami, began in Japan. However, the kozuka of a Japanese sword made by Gotō Eijō (後藤栄乗) between the end of the 1500s and the beginning of the 1600s was decorated with a picture of a crane made of origami, and it is believed that origami for play existed by the Sengoku period or the early Edo period.
Jeannine Mosely (born May 16, 1953 in Pittsburgh, PA) holds a Ph.D. in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is known for her work as an origami artist. [1] She is best known for her modular origami designs, especially her work using business cards. She has organized several crowd-sourced origami projects built from tens of ...
The Bug Wars were origami contests among members of the Origami Detectives (Tanteidan in Japanese) which started when one member made a bug, a horned beetle with outspread wings, from a single sheet of paper: this design provoked other members to design more complex origami in the shape of bugs, such as wasps and praying mantises.
Many modular origami models are decorative folding balls such as kusudama, which differ from classical origami in that the pieces may be held together using thread or glue. Chinese paper folding , a cousin of origami, includes a similar style called golden venture folding where large numbers of pieces are put together to create elaborate models.
Tomoko Fuse (布施 知子, Fuse Tomoko, born in Niigata, 1951) is a Japanese origami artist and author of numerous books on the subject of modular origami, and is by many considered as a renowned master in such discipline.