What a beautiful story, Dave! Thanks so much for sharing. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has what is probably the oldest set of origata known to date. The 128 origata are pasted in a sort of “scrapbook album” and there are 23 more loose objects. They are mostly tsutsumi (paper folded envelopes), ocho and mecho (the “butterflies”) and some other objects. The accompanied information says: “According to the inscriptions, this set of models served as the initiation into the art of origata for Kikuchi Fujiwara no Takehide by an Ogasawara master, and is dated the third month of 1697.” http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/78428?sortBy=Relevance&ft=origami&pg=1&rpp=20&pos=29
Laura Rozenberg On Jul 7, 2017, at 10:35 AM, David Mitchell <davidmitchell...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > I wonder what other old paperfolds have survived in Europe? I know about the > Ross and Reiter in Nuremberg and Dresden but are there others I haven't > heard about? > > Dave >
