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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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Birth Year
1911 1
Death Year
2005 1
Nationality
Japanese 1
Defining Contribution
Modern origami as art; wet-folding; the Yoshizawa-Randlett diagram notation 1
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