Origami

                                                             Origami

A ORIGEM:Origami (Japanese: 折り紙 in oru, "folding" and kami, "paper") is the traditional art and secular Japanese folding paper, creating representations of certain beings or objects with geometric folds of a piece of paper, without cutting it or paste it.

Origami uses only a small number of different folds, which however can be combined in various ways to form complex drawings. Generally part is a square piece of paper, whose faces can be of different colors or patterns, without continuing to cut the paper. Contrary to popular belief, traditional Japanese origami, which is practiced since the Edo Period (1603-1897), has often been less strict with these conventions, allowing even cutting the paper during the creation of the drawing, or using other paper shapes than the square (rectangular, circular, etc.)..

According to Japanese culture, one that makes one thousand origami paper crane of Japan (Tsuru, "Heron") would have made ​​a request - a belief popularized by the story of Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the atomic bomb.


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