Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.

Modern origami was popularized throughout Japan and the United States through exhibitions of the work of Akira Yoshizawa, the grandmaster of origami, who developed a standard way to teach folding ...

Raising the profile of the Japanese culture was boosted by an origami competition. The Sasakawa Fellowship Fund for Japanese Language Education sponsored Edgewater College for the occasion as part of ...