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The Fox Mask
 
This page attempts to record what is known about the origin and history of the origami design known as the Fox Mask (which is developed from the House). Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

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1905

As far as I know this design first appears, as 'Fox Mask', in 'Shukouka Kyohon : Liron Jishuu Souga Setsumei' by Kikujiro Kiuchi, Rokushiro Uehara and Hideyoshi Okayama, which was published by Shigebei Takase in Chiba in 1905.

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The design also appears:

1908

In 'Origami zusetsu' (Illustrated Origami) by Sano Shozo, which was published in Tokyo in 1908.

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1931

In 'Origami (Part 1)' by Isao Honda, which was first published in Japan in 1931.

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1958

In 'Origami: Book Two' by Florence Sakade, which was published by the Charles E Tuttle Company in Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo in 1958

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1965

In 'The World of Origami' by Isao Honda, which was published in the USA by Japan Publications Trading Company in 1965.

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