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'Shukouka no Liron Oyobi Jissai' (Handicraft Theory and Practice) by Kuniho Nakamura and Shinpei Ito was published by Kofukan in Tokyo in 1903.

A full copy of the work can be accessed online here.

The drawings of the finished designs and the crease patterns given in this work are not always straightforward to interpret.

I have only attempted to identify and analyse the Forms of Life.

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Analysis

The Japanese House

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Hat - The Monk's Hat

(Derived from the Japanese House)

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Boat - The Warship

(The crease pattern is that of the third groundform, which suggests that the drawing is supposed to be a representation of the Warship rather than the Paper Boat. In addition the characters to the right below the drawing read 'warship'.)

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Wrapper for Money?

The characters say 'money into'.

(It is not clear to me how the crease pattern relates to the drawing of the finished design.)

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Crane

(It is not clear to me how the crease pattern relates to the drawing of the finished design.)

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Lantern - The Long Lantern

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The Trousers

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Helmet - The Kabuto

The characteron the right says 'helmet'. The crease pattern suggests this is the Kabuto. No drawing of the finished design is given.

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Fukusuke - Simple Fukusuke

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Selected Pages

(Pages are ordered top to bottom and left to right)

Chapter 6: Cut Work

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Chapter 8: Origami

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Chapter 9: Thick Paper Craftsmanship

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Sewing

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