Re: [Origami] Questions about the establishment of Origami Day in Japan

[gera...@neorigami.com]

I wanted to make a follow up email. I received a couple of emails from members 
of the list, thank you all. And thanks to Anne LaVin I contacted NOA and 
learned a couple of things.
According to their email, origami Day in Japan was indeed established by the 
Nippon Origami Association NOA, and in 1980... 42 years ago! That's what I 
learned, I hope others here appreciate the information as well .

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Re: [Origami] one side colored paper

[Elina Gor via Origami]

Very interesting! Thank you!



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On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 5:46 PM leslie cefali  wrote:

> I have heard or read that it started because it was cheaper to only print
> one side of the paper. Never heard when this started. Never knew if this
> was true or an another origami legend.
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> Hi everyone,
> I am looking for a reference to a bibliographic source about one side
> colored paper.
> The idea to paint one side of the paper in color so it will be easier to
> teach the model. As I knew it, it started from Froebel, but can't find the
> source. Maybe it wasn't Froebel's idea at all?
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Re: [Origami] one side colored paper

[leslie cefali via Origami]

I have heard or read that it started because it was cheaper to only print one 
side of the paper. Never heard when this started. Never knew if this was true 
or an another origami legend.

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> On Nov 20, 2022, at 6:27 AM, Elina Gor via Origami 
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> Hi everyone,
> I am looking for a reference to a bibliographic source about one side colored 
> paper. 
> The idea to paint one side of the paper in color so it will be easier to 
> teach the model. As I knew it, it started from Froebel, but can't find the 
> source. Maybe it wasn't Froebel's idea at all?
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Re: [Origami] one side colored paper

[Laura R via Origami]

A while ago I found a paragraph in Origami Omnibus (Kunihiko Kasahara) that 
intrigued me. It may have to do with your question. It prompted me several 
questions, as follows: 

In his book Origami Omnibus, Kunihiko Kasahara says: "In the late nineteenth 
century, a paper dealer in the Yushima district of Tokyo imported colored 
papers from Europe, cut them into small squares, and sold them in sets called 
origami. And this was the origin of the kind of origami popular today." 
"Of course, origami itself is much older than the late nineteenth century. But 
until that time, it had been known by a variety of names --kami-orimono, 
orisue, origata, tatamigami, and so on--and had employed the kind of paper 
called hanshi, which is white on both sides and rectangular in shape."

This text raises several questions: 

1. Is anyone aware of the dealer mentioned by him? 
2. Is there a way to confirm the story of a dealer who brought paper from 
Europe and cut it in squares for the first time? Where did he get that? 
3. What is hanshi? Does he refer to washi paper? (Hanji for me is the Korean 
paper but going phonetically may only bring confusion. The type of hanshi he 
mentions may be something totally different and rooted in Japan, the English 
spelling sometimes is deceiving.) 
4. All the previous names for paperfolding are well known to us. Does Kasahara 
want to imply that the word origami began to be used thanks to those little 
packages of paper? Okamura has a different view about the word "origami" and 
how it developed (also in the 19th century, but in the school environment)


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> Hi everyone,
> I am looking for a reference to a bibliographic source about one side colored 
> paper. 
> The idea to paint one side of the paper in color so it will be easier to 
> teach the model. As I knew it, it started from Froebel, but can't find the 
> source. Maybe it wasn't Froebel's idea at all?
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Re: [Origami] one side colored paper

[Mizu-randa]

Sorry, no reference of any kind but I’ve always been told that it goes back to 
‘ancient’ history.

In the beginning there was white paper only, very expensive so only monasteries 
could afford it. Monks used paper strips with painted on texts to decorate 
their monastery for special worshipping sessions. Later they started to fold 
the strips and then put texts on. This is how origami started and why the paper 
is only coloured on one side.

I don’t know if it’s true but it’s a nice story so I never verified.

Origards,
Miranda


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Subject: [Origami] one side colored paper

Hi everyone,
I am looking for a reference to a bibliographic source about one side colored 
paper.
The idea to paint one side of the paper in color so it will be easier to teach 
the model. As I knew it, it started from Froebel, but can't find the source. 
Maybe it wasn't Froebel's idea at all?


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[Origami] one side colored paper

[Elina Gor via Origami]

Hi everyone,
I am looking for a reference to a bibliographic source about one side
colored paper.
The idea to paint one side of the paper in color so it will be easier to
teach the model. As I knew it, it started from Froebel, but can't find the
source. Maybe it wasn't Froebel's idea at all?

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