As most of you will know, with a lot of help from a lot of friends, I am attempting to collect and make available on-line as many sources bearing on the history of paperfolding as I can. This information is then being made publicly available as part of the Public Paperfolding History Project which you can find on my website at https://www.origamiheaven.com/historyindex.htm.
I have recently managed to locate quite a few early Japanese kindergarten text books online in the National Diet Library and it would be helpful to know what they say. I normally rely on Google Lens, which is pretty good (I think!) at translating kanji, but doesn't seem to be able to cope with the other Japanese alphabets. As a result, while I can read the main text of these books I can't read the names of the designs, which seem to be written in what I think is hiragana. It would be really useful to know what these designs are properly called! So ... this is an appeal for help! If you are interested in paperfolding history ... are reasonably fluent in Japanese ... can read hiragana ... and have a little time to spare to help, I would love to hear from you ... privately, of course! Dave
