I am presenting Part IV of the series “Unamuno and his Pajaritas”, an investigation by Juan Gimeno Viguera, our friend from Spain and a great connoisseur of the life and work of Unamuno and also the history of origami. Part IV – The Flapping Bird In 1889, Miguel de Unamuno traveled around Europe. It is possible that he discovered the Japanese flapping at the International Fair in Paris but it is also possible that he found about it in the literature as he was an avid reader and the flapping bird had been published in magazines and enciclopedias. A year later, Unamuno mentioned the "flying pajarita" in a letter to his friend Juan de Arzadun. In Spanish, with English subtitles: https://en.museodelorigami.org/diciembre-2020
Laura Rozenberg
