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How to Origami

By on May 23, 2018

Before Origami became world famous as a form of Japanese edutainment, this art of paper folding once filled a need in ancient Japan.

During the Edo era, gifts did not come with greeting cards like the western customary practice. Instead, a noshi was attached to a gift. A noshi is a white paper beautifully folded with strips of meat or abalone offered to the recipient as an expression of good wishes.

Interested in origami?  Well, we’ve scoured for easy-to-understand books and kits in town that you and your children can master. Here are our top three recommendations:

TOMIKO FUSE’S ORIGAMI BOXES
Learn how to fold unique gift boxes from origami master Tomoko Fuse. Origami artist and book author Fuse’s claim to fame started when she was 19 years old. Under the tutelage of origami master Toyoaki Kawai, she mastered her craft and went on to become the sensei of modular origami.
This book is an excellent introduction to the art of origami allowing beginners to start with a simple box or tato and then building to more intricate pieces. A step-by-step instruction and diagrams guide you from start to !nish as you create rectangular, triangular, hexagonal and more shapes to produce pyramid- shaped, modular tops, window-top boxes for nesting a gift, box tops (to spiraled), easy liners, and a whole lot more. Origami box folding can satisfy your creative cravings as well as your child’s.   ¥1,549

ORIGAMI FISH AND OTHER SEA CREATURES
Does your child love !shes? Get this fun-packed creativity kit to introduce him/her to the di”erent !sh types. Featuring twenty delightful models by world-famous Origami artists with step-by-step online video tutorials on a 64-page instruction book and 60 folding sheets, you and your child can create a clown!sh, bubble !sh, pu”er !sh, manta ray, enough to create your own virtual aquarium.  ¥1,691

OUT OF THIS WORLD PAPER AIRPLANES
Learn how to fold world record- setting paper airplanes. This airplane kit takes paper airplane a!cionados into Takuo Toda’s world of award-winning spaceship designs. Twelve of his best designs including his Zero Fighter and three signature space shuttles are in the kit with high- performance papers and folding lines already printed on them to make folding a breeze! No glue or other materials needed. It comes with a 64-page full color book introducing Toda’s work with step- by-step instructions and #ying tips! Great for a dad and child activity.   ¥1,798

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