At the start of Catherine Holliday’s mini-course on orgami at Westbrook Intermediate School, she reads a story titled “Sadako.” Dedicated to the children of Hiroshima, it’s about a little girl named ...

Hisao Inagaki, Japan’s consul general in Seattle, displays a crane he folded Aug. 2, 2023, in Seattle. He’s been folding an origami crane and recording a daily video, sending best wishes to Seattle ...

LOS ANGELES -- An artist in Los Angeles is memorializing each of the thousands of people who have died from covid-19 in the United States with a delicate origami crane. Karla Funderburk started making ...

What was meant to be a 100-day project of transforming paper into beautiful origami cranes turned out to be much more than that for artist Cristian Marianciuc. The Romanian-born translator created ...

Cranes have long symbolized peace, good health, longevity, and healing in many Asian cultures. According to the Japanese tradition of senbazuru, anyone who folds 1,000 origami cranes will be granted ...

A little girl in Japan once believed paper cranes can grant her a wish. The story of Sadako Sasaki, who was affected by the Hiroshima Nagasaki bombings, and her prayer cranes, continues to touch ...

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The origami cranes pour out of Whole Foods and Metropolitan Market bags, a Hammermill crate and a Häagen-Dazs box. More than 1,000 pile up on the table: hot pink cranes. Orange and yellow and green ...