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Anne LaVin wrote: "This photo of the Cerceda pig in the Origami Database: http://origamidb.stagepics.co.uk/displayphoto.asp?ModelID=2580 argues that it is not that pig, unless the artist who did the drawing of the restaurant's logo went to the trouble of adding a bunch of arbitrary creaselines. (Which, while not impossible, seems odd to have done.) Or that there is more than one Cerceda pig, also possible. Am not finding the Yoshizawa pig in the ODB at all - but lots of his work isn't entered there - so I can't compare directly with any of those." You are correct. The pose and dimensions looked so similar to the Cerceda/Yoshizawa pig that I jumped to a conclusion without first checking Engel's "Folding the Universe (Origami from Angelfish to Zen)" My Bad. Incidentally the drawing doesn't look like the one in the photograph on the restaurant site either. (click on the pig and then on the story of the pig) Weird. BTW Engel, who summarizes Yoshizawa's accusing Cerceda of theft, says that the Yoshizawa pig was published in 1945. Early by modern origami standards. I'd say there's good odds that the publication was in Japanese and hard to find. Thomas Sullivan
