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origami
Title: origami
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 562 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
origami
Origami (pronounced or-i-GA-me) is the Japanese art of paperfolding. "Ori" is the Japanese word for folding and "kami" is the Japanese word for paper. That is how origami got its name. However, origami did not start in Japan. It began in China in the first or second century and then spread to Japan sometime during the sixth century.
At first, there was very little paper available so only the rich could afford to do paperfolding. …showed first 75 words of 562 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 562 total…origami" because of his creative paperfolding. He also developed a set of symbols and terms that are used worldwide in the written instructions of origami.
The interest in origami continues to increase today. Just as the ancient Japanese found useful purposes for their origami models, so do we today. Origami will also be a part of our future as we look toward the millennium. The origami crane has become a global peace symbol.
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