Akira Yoshizawa, Japan's Greatest Origami Master: Featuring Over 60 Models and 1000 Diagrams by the Master

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The diagrams are from his original books, scanned to a high standard and relaid in a more contemporary style within a 9×12 inches hardback format. By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you. This was a landscape filed with origami figures which started with spring on the left and shaded through summer and autumn to the snow-covered landscape of winter on the right.

Akira Yoshizawa ( 吉澤 章, Yoshizawa Akira, 14 March 1911 – 14 March 2005) was a Japanese origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami. In 1955, his original works were exhibited for the first time at a show in Amsterdam, an enormously successful event that introduced him to the West. In recent years, she has organized various exhibitions abroad to help the broad public understand Yoshizawa's works even better. So, by good fortune, almost from the beginning Yoshizawa's work has been known in the West as well as in Japan. As evidenced by the photos in this book, his works seem to leap off the page with a playful exuberance.

He served as a bridge between past and present--between the ancient traditional craft and the development of origami as a contemporary practice--inventing new techniques and in preserving the traditional Japanese forms.

Less than seven years later the Origami Center was founded as far away as New York, and it was based on paperfolding according to Yoshizawa’s new ideas. The male lion was a proud creature, though in a stylised heraldic way, resembling the lion "supporting" the coat of arms at the head of the London Times newspaper. We take intellectual property concerns very seriously, but many of these problems can be resolved directly by the parties involved. I have often likened him to the guitarist, Andres Segovia, who was similarly self-taught and who transformed the art of the classical guitar out of all recognition both by revolutionising its technique and by extending its repertoire.In this book, there is a detailed introduction written by an American origami expert, Robert Lang, where readers can learn about Akira Yoshizawa and his origami work. His passion for origami was rekindled in his early 20s, when he was promoted from factory worker to technical draftsman. His origami work was creative enough to be included in the 1944 book Origami Shuko, by Isao Honda ( 本多 功). Eric Joisel, French origami artist who mastered animal and human forms in complex paper-folded sculptures" (PDF). Aber mehr als ein kurzer Blick bleibt mir nicht übrig: das Buch kam in einem mehr oder wenigen zerstörten Zustand an: Wasserschaden und komplett verbeulte Ecken.

I enjoyed reading about each introduced model because it gave me some sense of why he was inspired to create those models. It was an impressive and sacred place with its ornate altar illuminated on either side by cascades of white "fairy" lights on either side and with a magnificent gilt chandelier suspended above.He, almost single-handedly, set the standards for folding and creating, inspiring many of our current creative masters.