[Origami] History of Origami in Japanese?
Forwarding for Yahoo user Laura sea4...@yahoo.com: What is the best source for the history of origami in Japanese language? Is there a book or something? Laura Rozenberg
Re: [Origami] History of Origami
Origami by Torimoto and Duke has a pretty good section on the history of origami. Complete Origami by Kenneway has good sections of history peppered throughout the book.
Re: [Origami] History of Origami
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Anna origa...@gmail.com wrote: very often I receive requests from high school students to name a couple of books about the history of Origami for some school projects they are working on. Do not forget the BOS collection of David Lister's essays: http://www.britishorigami.info/academic/lister/index.php Huge range of topics, lots for students to dig around in! Anne
Re: [Origami] History of Origami
Hello, thanks for the answers I got so far regarding books about Origami history. Unfortunately those students are not allowed to refer to online sources (stupid I know), therefore the Lister List - even though it is the best source of Origami history I'm aware of - is out of the question. Maybe it would be possible that the BOS publishes all the essays as a booklet some day. This would be something they would be allowed to use, even though it would be exactly the same content, but hey, someone printed it out and sells it, this information must be valuable. Ironic but true. I'd be glad to get more recommendations about books on Origami history. Nice Greetings Anna
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2014-11-16 21:02 GMT+01:00 Chris Lott ch...@chrislott.org: Could you possibly also share the list of books? Sure thing: Notes on the History of Origami, John S. Smith, BOS #1 The Origami Bible, Nick Robinson, ISBN 1-58180-517-9 Origami Odyssey, Peter Engel, ISBN 978-0-8048-4119-1 Papiroflexia, Eduardo Clemente (Spanish) Folding Universe, Peter Engel, ISBN 0-394-75751-3 Here are the other recommendations I got so far: Origami Torimoto Duke Complete Origami Eric Kenneway Origami Omnibus Kunihiko Kasahara Origami from Angelfisch to Zen Peter Engel Gefaltete Schönheit Joan Sallas Thanks to everyone who sent me recommendations so far. If anyone knows any more books about the history of Origami I'll be glad to add them to the list. Nice Greetings Anna
Re: [Origami] History of Origami (FWD)
Forwarding for Yahoo user Laura sea4...@yahoo.com From: Anna origa...@gmail.com: Unfortunately those students are not allowed to refer to online sources (stupid I know), therefore the Lister List - even though it is the best source of Origami history I'm aware of - is out of the question. Maybe it would be possible that the BOS publishes all the essays as a booklet some day. This would be something they would be allowed to use, even though it would be exactly the same content, but hey, someone printed it out and sells it, this information must be valuable. Ironic but true. Your school may be right in banning or limiting that practice because the information that is found online is often full of non-checked data. David Lister was very concerned with accuracy. I remember how suspicious he was about data found in Wikipedia. I believe he considered his own essays to be a work in the making, and he had a reason for that. The information about the history of origami is scarce and full of holes and uncertainties. I may be wrong, but I think that was the main reason why he never published a hard copy book. There are books out there that basically have copied chunks of information from older books and websites, and you know the more a story is repeated the more seems true. This doesn't mean a book on the history of origami will never become a reality, but a good one should be one with a lot of footnotes, for a honest start. Laura Rozenberg
Re: [Origami] History of Origami
Origami from Angelfish to Zen Peter Engel Excelent content about origami history!!! 2014-11-16 18:24 GMT-02:00, Anna origa...@gmail.com: 2014-11-16 21:02 GMT+01:00 Chris Lott ch...@chrislott.org: Could you possibly also share the list of books? Sure thing: Notes on the History of Origami, John S. Smith, BOS #1 The Origami Bible, Nick Robinson, ISBN 1-58180-517-9 Origami Odyssey, Peter Engel, ISBN 978-0-8048-4119-1 Papiroflexia, Eduardo Clemente (Spanish) Folding Universe, Peter Engel, ISBN 0-394-75751-3 Here are the other recommendations I got so far: Origami Torimoto Duke Complete Origami Eric Kenneway Origami Omnibus Kunihiko Kasahara Origami from Angelfisch to Zen Peter Engel Gefaltete Schönheit Joan Sallas Thanks to everyone who sent me recommendations so far. If anyone knows any more books about the history of Origami I'll be glad to add them to the list. Nice Greetings Anna
Re: [Origami] History of Origami (FWD)
2014-11-16 22:15 GMT+01:00 Laura sea4...@yahoo.com Your school may be right in banning or limiting that practice because the information that is found online is often full of non-checked data. Oh, that's a misunderstanding. I'm in no way related any school nor the students that contact me. I'm a paper folder, author of the book Origami - Neue Ideen für originelle Falt-Objekte, administrator of the English Origami Forum, moderator of the German Origami Mailing List and co-author of the Origami Austria website, but I'm neither a student nor a teacher. Nice Greetings Anna from Vienna / Austria http://origami.at
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Ricardo Borges origami...@gmail.com wrote: Origami from Angelfish to Zen Peter Engel Excelent content about origami history!!! Not exactly. Peter Engel's book is a fascinating read, and full of interesting ideas about the psychology of creativity, patterns in nature, etc. But as I think Peter will readily admit, much of the historical information is based on sources that turned out to be inaccurate. And that's not really his fault-- there was a lot of misinformation floating around, often from sources that seemed reliable, and not much hard evidence was known or publicly available. Earlier in this thread, Laura Rozenberg commented that information that is found online is often full of 'non-checked' data. IMHO, the history sections of most origami books demonstrate that this phenomenon is by no means restricted to the internet ;) If you want good recent research, here's some things to look for: Koshiro Hatori had a really good article in the 5OSME proceedings titled A History of Origami in the East and West before Interfusion. Joan Sallas' book Gefaltete Schoenheit (2010) is a fantastic historical account, especially of the napkin-folding tradition in central Europe before 1800, but it's in German. However, much of this material is summarized in The Beauty of the Fold: A Conversation with Joan Sallas (2012) edited by Charlotte Birnbaum. http://www.amazon.com/The-Beauty-Fold-Conversation-Sallas/dp/1934105988 Also, if you're an OrigamiUSA member, I wrote an article for The Fold a couple years ago which incorporates many ideas from these two authors' research: https://origamiusa.org/thefold/article/origami-history-yoshizawa -- Andrew __ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahudson http://ahudsonorigami.wordpress.com/
