《Such a grass》 - Kayaragusa

Japanese: 《斯哉等草》 - かやらぐさ
《Such a grass》 - Kayaragusa

...This book shows 49 consecutive forms of the "origami crane" (paper crane), a representative of origami, from 2 to 97 cranes, with a comical poem attached, and shows the development diagrams for folding each crane from a single piece of paper, and the completed form. The preface states that the origami crane was already well known. Another known concrete source is two books entitled "Kayaragusa" (Such and other herbs) among the 232 notebooks that Adachi Kazuyuki recorded as personal memorandums over several decades up to 1845 (Koka 2). These books record a total of 48 folding methods with a variety of themes, starting with noshi (paper wrapping) and wrapping shapes, as well as plants, insects, animals, birds, and dolls (the main part is introduced in Sakuma Yaeme's "Classic Origami" (1981)). ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Shizai Tokusa" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これは折紙を代表する〈折鶴(おりづる)〉を,2羽から97羽まで計49種類にわたる連続形として,いずれも1枚の紙からつなぎ折りするための展開図と完成形によって,狂歌を添えて示したものであるが,その序文では折鶴はすでに衆知のものと記されている。もう一つ具体的資料として知られるものに,足立一之が1845年(弘化2)までの数十年間,個人の備忘録として記録した232冊のノート中の《斯哉等草(かやらぐさ)》と題した2冊の書がある。そこには熨斗,包形からはじまって,植物,昆虫,獣,鳥,人形などバラエティに富んだテーマの折り方が計48点記録されている(佐久間八重女《古典折り紙》(1981)にその主要部分が紹介されている)。…

※「《斯哉等草》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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