The Peace Crane Project was founded in 2013 by Sue DiCicco , in order to promote world peace and raise awareness of the International Day of Peace (21 September).
11-412: A "peace crane" is an origami crane used as peace symbol , by reference to the story of Sadako Sasaki (1943–1955), a Japanese victim of the long-term effects of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Sasaki was one of the most widely known hibakusha (Japanese for "bomb-affected person"), said to have folded one thousand origami cranes before her death. The Peace Crane Project participated in
22-532: A small stellated dodecahedron . He does not specialize in what is known as "super complex origami", but rather he likes making simple, elegant animals, and modular designs such as polyhedra , as well as exploring the mathematics and geometry of origami. A book expressing both approaches is Origami for the Connoisseur (Kasahara and Takahama), which gathers modern innovations in polyhedral construction, featuring moderately difficult but accessible methods for producing
33-409: A half-square (2×1 rectangle) cut halfway through from one of the long sides, results in two cranes that share an entire wing, positioned vertically between their bodies; heads and tails may face in the same or opposite directions. This is known as imoseyama . If made from paper colored differently on each side, the cranes will be different colors. This origami technique was first illustrated in one of
44-454: Is a design that is considered to be the most classic of all Japanese origami . In Japanese culture, it is believed that its wings carry souls up to paradise, and it is a representation of the Japanese red-crowned crane , referred to as the "Honourable Lord Crane" in Japanese culture . It is often used as a ceremonial wrapper or restaurant table decoration. A thousand orizuru strung together
55-761: Is called senbazuru (千羽鶴), meaning "thousand cranes", and it is said that if someone folds a thousand cranes, they are granted one wish. The significance of senbazuru is featured in Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes , a classic story based on the life of Sadako Sasaki , a hibakusha girl at Hiroshima, and then later in a book The Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki: and the Thousand Paper Cranes . Since then, senbazuru and collective effort to complete it came to be recognized as synonyms of 'wish for recovering' or 'wish for peace'. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum exhibits two paper cranes hand-crafted and presented to
66-637: The Platonic solids from single sheets, and much more. Kasahara is perhaps origami's most enthusiastic designer and collector of origami models that are variations on a cube, a number of which appear in Vol. 2 of a 2005 three volume work (presently available only in Japanese). Vol. 3 of the same work is devoted to another Kasahara interest: reverse engineering and diagramming classic Japanese origami models pictured in early works, such as zenbazuru ( thousand origami cranes from
77-655: The 20th Annual Sadako Peace Day, hosted by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Montecito (2014). Participants in the Peace Crane Project are asked to fold an origami crane and then sign up on the website to exchange their crane with someone in a different city, state, country or continent. They are encouraged to take a photo of their crane after placing it in their community, and to upload the photo online. In Bangalore , India, over sixty schools took part in
88-450: The museum by President Barack Obama when he visited the city in 2016, alongside his message. The term renzuru ( 連鶴 , "conjoined cranes" ) refers to an origami technique whereby one folds multiple cranes from a single sheet of paper (usually square), employing a number of strategic cuts to form a mosaic of semi-detached smaller squares from the original large square paper. The resulting cranes are attached to one another (e.g., at
99-493: The oldest known origami books, the Hiden Senbazuru Orikata (1797). (Updated diagrams from this early work can be found in a current book by Japanese origami author Kunihiko Kasahara .) Kunihiko Kasahara Kunihiko Kasahara ( 笠原 邦彦 , Kasahara Kunihiko ) (born 1941) is a Japanese origami master. He has made more than a hundred origami models, from simple lion masks to complex modular origami , such as
110-630: The peace crane exchange in 2013. The Peace Crane Project announced a new initiative for 2017, inviting students around the world to fold a crane and include it in a traveling exhibit of 1,000 cranes which will appear at a variety of venues over the next several years. Purpose Global in 2016 included the Peace Crane Project a "list of the 500 most influential global initiatives for peace". Ellen DeGeneres tweeted about The Peace Crane Project on Peace Day in 2019, encouraging her followers to participate. Orizuru The orizuru (折鶴 ori- "folded," tsuru " crane "), origami crane or paper crane ,
121-419: The tips of the beaks, wings, or tails) or at the tip of the body (e.g., a baby crane sitting on its mother's back). The trick is to fold all the cranes without breaking the small paper bridges that attach them to one another or, in some cases, to effectively conceal extra paper. Typical renzuru configurations include a circle of four or more cranes attached at the wing tips. One of the simplest forms, made from
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