S Hiden Senbazuru Orikata ("Secret to Folding One-thousand Cranes") published in Japan in 1797 is the first known book on origami. The images with a name ending are on the left hand side and is on the right of a pair of pages.
S Hiden Senbazuru Orikata ("Secret to Folding One-thousand Cranes") published in Japan in 1797 is the first known book on origami. The images with a name ending are on the left hand side and is on the right of a pair of pages.
Hiden Senbazuru Orikata, page The dark cuts divide the square into one large square for the mother crane and six smaller squares for the children. Notice the cuts do not quite separate the squares.