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	Akira Yoshizawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akira Yoshizawa (吉澤章 Yoshizawa Akira; 14 March 1911 – 14 March 2005) was considered to be the grandmaster of origami.
		Born the son of a dairy farmer in rural Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.
		Yoshizawa acted as an international cultural ambassador for Japan throughout his career.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akira_Yoshizawa (316 words)

	Akira Yoshizawa \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Akira Yoshizawa, a master paper folder widely acclaimed as the father of modern origami, died March 14, his 94th birthday, at a hospital near his home in Ogikubo, a suburb of Tokyo.
		Akira Yoshizawa was born March 14, 1911, in Kaminokawa, in the Tochigi Prefecture.
		Yoshizawa, who became a technical draftsman at the factory, was asked to teach geometry to the junior employees.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050410/news_mz1j10akira.html (511 words)

	Akira Yoshizawa @ art-riko.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Akira Yoshizawa, who has died aged 94, was regarded as the father of modern origami and acknowledged as its greatest living exponent.
		It was Yoshizawa who in the 1950s united the two streams, revolutionising the art and popularising it around the world.
		Akira Yoshizawa was born into a family of farmers at Tochigi, central Japan, on March 14 1911.
	www.art-riko.com /page--Akira-Yoshizawa--ste_april12th2004.html (694 words)

	Origami Peace Tree Project - Akira Yoshizawa
		Yoshizawa folded many new models to be displayed in the exhibition and at last the Japanese public had the opportunity of seeing Yoshizawa's magical and revolutionary paperfolding for themselves.
		Yoshizawa's models were displayed for the first time in the West in the open air on tables and in trees.
		Akira Yoshizawa has sent me copies of some of the newspaper and magazine articles that appeared in Holland at the time of the exhibition in Amsterdam and a Dutch friend has made translations of some of them.
	www.iap-peacetree.org /opt/akira.html (3151 words)

	Reflections on Yoshizawa Seminar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Yoshizawa wanted his students to repeat a folded model until we were satisfied that the results expressed the essence of an animal.
		Yoshizawa wore a white glove to handle the origami models and produced models from a seemingly endless stack of boxes.
		Yoshizawa began to produce from another stack of boxes, a whole series of masks and faces in a variety of poses and characters.
	home.earthlink.net /~robertcubie/origami/ray_art.html (831 words)

	bookofjoe: Akira Yoshizawa, World's Greatest Origami Artist, is Dead at 94
		Yoshizawa took origami far beyond its origins as mainly a child's pastime.
		Yoshizawa, now a technical draftsman at the factory, was asked to teach geometry to the junior employees.
		Yoshizawa's reputation, leading to exhibitions in Japan and, in 1955, a show at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
	www.bookofjoe.com /2005/04/akira_yoshizawa.html (992 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Of Note
		Akira Yoshizawa, 94, an origami master whose expressive paper gorillas made an art out of Japan's craft tradition, died March 14 at a hospital in the suburbs of Tokyo.
		Yoshizawa's origami gorillas appeared ready to lumber through the jungle, and his frogs looked like they were on the verge of leaping off their lily pads.
		Yoshizawa only began intently studying paper folding to explain tasks to younger colleagues at the ironworks factory where he worked during World War II.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A32778-2005Apr6?language=printer (593 words)

	Akira Model (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Akira Kurosawa (黒澤明 ''Kurosawa Akira'', also 黒沢明) (March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a prominent Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter of films, many of which are considered highly influential worldwide classics.
		Akira Ishida (石田彰 ''Ishida Akira'', born November 2, 1967) is a male seiyū born in Aichi.
		In North America, Akira was the beginning of the current wave of anime fandom and served as inspiration to the Wachowski brothers' ''The Matrix'' trilogy of motion pictures.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/6/akira-model.html (1697 words)

	Two Miscellaneous Collections of Jottings on the History of Origami: Part One
		The great divide between the old paperfolding and the new came around 1950, when the work of Akira Yoshizawa came to be known.
		Yoshizawa's work appeared first in Japan with the publication of his series of astrological figures in the picture magazine "Asahi Graf" in the issue for January, 1952.
		It was Yoshizawa who created the idea of CREATIVE paperfolding (Sasaku Origami) and he invented a whole range of new designs which owed nothing to the origami of the past.
	www.paperfolding.com /history/partone (2158 words)

	Origami Artist Akira Yoshizawa Dies at 94 (phillyBurbs.com) \| Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		TOKYO - Akira Yoshizawa, an origami master whose expressive paper gorillas made an art out of Japan's craft tradition, died March 14 of heart failure and pneumonia, his wife said Sunday.
		Moving far beyond paper cranes and hats, Yoshizawa's origami gorillas appeared ready to lumber through the jungle and his frogs looked like they were on the verge of leaping off their lily pads.
		Yoshizawa died on March 14 - the same day of his birth in 1911 - after spending close to two months in the hospital, said Kiyo Yoshizawa.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/90-04032005-471430.html (443 words)

	Akira
		Akira is a popular given name for both males and females in Japan.
		Several different kanji can be pronounced "Akira", and most of the characters are variants on basic characters meaning "distinct" or "bright".
		This human name article is a disambiguation page — it may be an article about a human name, but it is a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, whether or not they are about a person.
	www.tvave.com /CartoonNetwork-A/Akira.php (238 words)

	Akira Watase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		No one is going to land on Akira who really wants to go to Akira Toriyama; they're going to want the anime film ''Akira''.
		Secondly, Akira is a special case with names in Japanese because it can conceivably be a given name or surname and listing out people with the name Akira adds needless confusion for English speakers who don't understand that the word "Akira" can do that.
		People unfamiliar with Japanese name order may think that Akira is someone's surname when written second and attempt to look up a person by that surname.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/6/akira-watase.html (605 words)

	Origami - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The origins of origami are disputed, but origami was certainly developed more in Japan than anywhere else.
		Origami was mostly a traditional art for the amusement of children until Akira Yoshizawa spurred a renaissance of the artform with his new advancements, including wet-folding and the Yoshizawa-Randlett system of diagramming.
		In the 1960s the art of origami began to spread out, first with modular origami and then with various movements developing, including the kirikomi, purist and pureland schools of thought.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Origami (1428 words)

	The Origami Forum :: View topic - Akira Yoshizawa 's 30 years Cicada
		It says Akira Yoshizawa is considered as a Grand Master (I know) and his most complex model is the cicada.
		Yoshizawa added colour to "this view by suggesting that some creases should be made more " softly than others.
		The technical problem of adding gentle creases is that they do not readily stay in place as the fold is handled.
	www.thekhans.me.uk /forum/viewtopic.php?t=387 (480 words)

	Origami Article in Mensa Bulletin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Akira Yoshizawa is considered the father of modern origami.
		The dinosaurs and the cow's head were designed by Akira Yoshizawa.
		Dinosaurs designed by Akira Yoshizawa, folded out out of typing paper.
	home.comcast.net /~hanksimon/origami/Mensa1.html (1009 words)

	Evidence Footprints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Yoshizawa arranging the flood lights to get the correct light exposure of the items selected to photograph.
		Takao are making pictures of one of the very rare 106 Heddon patches donated by PRADCO for the "1967 All-American Invitational Bass Torunament" held in their backyard on Beaver Lake, Springdale, Arkansas.
		Yoshizawa is taking pictures for Evidence Group Magazine.
	www.antiquefishinglures.com /evidence.htm (679 words)

	Akira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		_ Veteran slugger Akira Eto hit a two-run homer to highlight a four-run rally in the fourth inning Wednesday as the Pacific League-leading Seibu Lions beat the Rakuten Eagles 8-2 for their fourth straight victory.
		The fourth season of Mary Tyler Moore, like Fox's Season Three set, is sadly devoid of extra features.
		When "The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson" returns July 24 from a week of vacation reruns, it will be to a brand-new set designed by Akira Yoshimura, the award-winning creator of more than one set for "Saturday Night Live" and "Tonight," among numerous other shows.
	www.paleorama.com /Marvel-A/Akira.php (604 words)

	CROWNING GLORY - PREVIOUS EXHIBITION
		For his contribution to the culture of Japan, the Emperor decorated Mr.
		Yoshizawa in 1983 with the Order of the Rising Sun.
		For almost 1900 years masters taught their students the techniques and designs of origami by demonstrating the same models they had been taught.
	www.mingei.org /prevexorigami_masters.html (382 words)

	The Origami Forum :: View topic - Great Origami Master Akira Yoshizawa passed away
		I juts had this sad news, Akira Yoshizawa is deceased monday.
		I propose to make an Origami designed by Yoshizawa and post the picture here in his honor...
		Like Johny Carson, there will never be another Yoshizawa.
	www.thekhans.me.uk /forum/viewtopic.php?t=390 (348 words)

	The History of Paper Folding
		In 1910, before the late master Akira Yoshizawa, Unamuno developed the art of paper folding in Spain and Argentina.
		The Japanese Isao Honda published many origami books in the 50's and included in his books both traditional models, and models by the later master Akira Yoshizawa.
		Lillian Oppenheimer in the late 1950's, after having been surrounded by it in many publications.
	www.origami.co.il /E_Articles_History.html (978 words)

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