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Origami
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Also Known As Paper folding
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The Japanese art of folding paper, traditionally from a single uncut square, into birds, boxes, flowers and figures. Once a ceremonial and recreational pastime, it became a worldwide art and a branch of applied mathematics in the twentieth century, with fold patterns now used in engineering from spacecraft panels to medical stents.
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Earliest Evidence (Circa)Recreational paper folding is documented in Japan by the Edo period; the 1797 Senbazuru Orikata, on folding a thousand cranes, is the earliest known book of recreational origami 1 OriginPaper folding in Japan began as ceremony, not play: wrapping gifts and making religious paper decorations became stylized into ceremonial origami first, and recreational folding is only pictured later, on a Japanese sword fitting made between the late 1500s and early 1600s that shows a folded paper crane. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Origami (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami, History sectionQuote, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami, History section
the kozuka of a Japanese sword made by GotÅ EijÅ between the end of the 1500s and the beginning of the 1600s was decorated with a picture of a crane made of origami
Bone Folder (Wikipedia)
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