Dear O-List, I am currently working on a paper about the world-wide success of origami.
In the google ngram viewer (a website that let's your search for term in a large amount of books) I looked up origami, and found in various languages, that the rise of the term "origami" began in the 1980s [1] Does anyone have an idea why that is? Did one of yoshizawas books get translated? Did a movie feature origami? Was it the activities of origami USA[2] ? I want to analyse in the paper why origami did become a known artform around the world while a lot of other equally beautfull artforms stay relativly unkown. all the best, Wolf aka Tavin [1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Origami&year_start=1940&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2COrigami%3B%2Cc0 [2] https://origamiusa.org/history
