All About Origami
by Declan Carlson

WHAT ORIGAMI MEANS

• Ori means folded and gami means paper.

THE ORIGAMI CRANE

There is a famous story of Sadako Sasaki and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Sadako was a little girl who was exposed to radiation as an infant when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Although she survived the bomb, she was diagnosed with leukemia by the age of 12. She decided to fold 1000 cranes, hoping that her wish to live would come true. Unfortunately, she only was able to fold 644 cranes before she died.

Her classmates then continued to fold cranes in her honour and she was buried with a wreath of 1,000 cranes to honor her dream. There is now a statue of Sadako in Hiroshima Peace Park – a little girl standing with her hand outstretched, holding a paper crane. Every year, thousands of wreaths of senbazuru or paper cranes are draped over her statue.

THE ORIGAMI PLANE

• The longest flight for a origami plane is 27.6 seconds.
• It was folded to look like square with folded up sides. It was gliding design.

WHAT ORIGAMI WAS ORIGINALLY NAMED

• Origami was originally named orikata which means folded shape.

WHAT IS KIRAGAMI

• kiragami is when you fold and cut paper.

WHAT KIRAGAMI MEANS

• kira means to cut and gami means paper in Japanese.

NOW SOME EXAMPLES

THIS IS ALSO KIRAGAMI

this is also kiragami

THIS IS ORIGAMI

THIS IS ALSO ORIGAMI

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