1000 cranes

Japanese artist Naoki Onogawa is taking origami art to the next level, and she's doing it in the most Japanese way ever.

Japanese 1000 origami cranes -Senbazuru-: Senbazuru is a string of a thousand paper cranes. It is usually sent to a person who is ill or injured as a prayer for recovery. The crane is symbolic of...

Japanese artist Naoki Onogawa is taking origami art to the next level, and she's doing it in the most Japanese way ever.

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(Aren't they cute?) My wedding gift for Claire and Gary is finally done and delivered, and I thought I'd share. The japanese tradition says that folding 1000 paper cranes for a couple on their wedding day is wishing them 1000 years of happiness and prosperity. My obsessive paper-folding tedium-loving self thought this sounded like a great plan, and a few months of continuous paper folding later, I achieved a very large pile of pretty white birds. 1000 paper cranes I had them all folded in…

Senbazuru : 1000 Paper Cranes: Thousand Origami Cranes (千羽鶴 Senbazuru?) is a group of one thousand origami paper cranes (折鶴 orizuru?) held together by strings. An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane. S…

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