Meenakshi Mukerji takes the ancient Japanese art form of origami – or paper folding – far beyond the making of simple paper cranes. Mukerji, a resident of Cupertino, is famous in the origami world for ...
Kazuya Katagiri’s award-winning Shi-An is a movable mini tea house constructed entirely out of paper using ancient Origami processes. The igloo-like structure is just one of Katagiri’s fascinating ...
Many small hands make beautiful, colorful work. And many small hands were busy last week at Lincoln Street Elementary School learning the Japanese art of origami. Students spent part of their recess ...
SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan — Scott Macri was 7 when his dad, stationed in Japan at the time, mailed him an introductory-level book about Japanese origami. It was on a whim. A keepsake. A birthday gift ...
Don’t say Lillian Yajima is “98” years old. She proudly claims the “half”…98 and a half years old….and the retired teacher is still teaching. Kupuna at care homes and children here at the Japanese ...
Takuo Toda, head of the Japan Origami Airplane Association (classy!) set a new world record with his 27.9 second flight. His greatest ambition, however, is to launch a paper plane…from space. Toda’s ...