In response to Karen's note about this beautiful book, I used to collect folk-toys, particularly paper ones, when living in Japan. I have one of these paper tiger 'boxes. It has a bivalve shell affixed to each corner, so when you fan it, it 'dances'. I think I got it in the far north of Honshu (main island), and was told it was a traditional toy of the area.
Cheers Clare, Perth Origami Group (I didn't see any origami as such in this antiquarian bookdealer's catalogue, except perhaps for a paper-tiger box in this wonderful set of pictures of Japanese toys, each page with its own animal theme: http://rarebook.com/index.php/component/content/article/41/2084)
