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| Article on the work of Akira Yoshizawa in Asahi Graf, January 1952 | |||||||
| An
article about the design work of Akira Yoshizawa,
entitled 'The New World of Origami', was published in the
Japanese newspaper Asahi Graf on January 9th 1952. It featured: A design for a turtle folded from a square. A design for a standing crane folded from a right angle isosceles triangle. Designs for the twelve animals of the Japanese zodiac. Of these the rooster and the snake appear to be from single sheets and the remaining ten appear to be compound designs. The information on this page is taken from an original print of the article held within the Gershon Legman archives in the library of the Museo del Origami in Colonia, Uruguay, and is used by kind permission of Laura Rozenberg. This is believed to be the only conserved original in the Western World. The translations, such as they are, are from Google lens. If you can improve them please let me know. **********
The article title (on the right) reads ' 'The New World of Origami'. The text on the left is headed 'Jade Mirror'. I cannot make sense of the text below it. The text on the left at the foot of the page mentions Akira Yoshizawa and gives some brief biographical details about him and the way the zodiac is folded, but much of what it says is unclear to me. The text at the right at the foot of the page is an explanation of the photo of Yoshizawa teaching children to fold. *********
The text at the left says, 'The turtle is folded from a square with claws on its four legs. I'm proud of it.' The text on the right says that the crane is folded from a right-angle isosceles triangle and that the neck and legs can be bent. The box at the bottom left is nothing to do with the article. **********
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