![]() ![]() He moved into a factory job in Tokyo when he was 13 years old. When a child, he took pleasure in teaching himself origami. In 1983, Japanese emperor Hirohito named him to the Order of the Rising Sun, one of the most honorary awards that can be given to a Japanese citizen.īorn on March 14th 1911, in Kaminokawa, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, to the family of a dairy farmer. ![]() Yoshizawa acted as an international cultural ambassador for Japan throughout his career. According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50,000 models, of which only a few hundred designs were diagrammed in his 18 books. He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living art. Akira Yoshizawa (吉澤 章 Yoshizawa Akira 14 March 1911 – 14 March 2005) was considered to be the grandmaster of origami.
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