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Akira Yoshizawa
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The grandmaster of modern origami, credited with tens of thousands of models and with raising paper folding from pastime to living art. He pioneered wet-folding, which gives paper sculptural, rounded forms, and co-devised the diagram notation of dots, dashes and arrows that folders everywhere still read.
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Defining ContributionModern origami as art; wet-folding; the Yoshizawa-Randlett diagram notation 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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