ORIGAMI / Senbatsuru
Senbazuru Senbazuru is a string of a thousand paper cranes. It is usually sent to a person who is ill or injured as a prayer for recovery. The crane is symbolic of happiness and long life.
Origami (The art of paper folding)
Origami is an amusement and a skill of folding square paper without using paste or scissors to shape things such as birds, goldfish and helmets. It is a traditional Japanese art, and in particular the crane is widely recognized as the masterpiece of origami. 1,000 folded cranes linked together by thread is called senbazuru(One Thousand Cranes) and is made and given to a sick person with the wish for a speedy recovery upon visiting him. In the United States, Oppenheimer's The Friends ORIGAMI of America is well-known, and in the United Kingdom there is the British ORIGAMI Society. There are origami societies also in other countries such as Italy, Belgium, and Holland. Today, origami has come to be widely enjoyed in numerous countries.
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