A Thousand Cranes and How to Fold Them (Senbazuru orikata)
Senbazuru orikata is a 1797 Kyoto book by Shimokōbe Shūsui, published by Yoshinoya Tamehachi, teaching readers how to fold paper cranes and other origami forms. The pages pair fine ink line drawings of folded paper models with Japanese instructions and blank grid diagrams for tracing folds. A designer can take from them the clean geometry of folded paper forms and the way step diagrams are laid out as crease grids.
