(Forwarding reply for Yahoo user Laura <[email protected]>, please reply to the list or to her, not to me!)
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Gerardo @neorigami.com < [email protected]> wrote: > [Does] anyone know if the waterbomb is a traditional Japanese model like the > crane for example? David Lister has an essay on the waterbomb: http://www.britishorigami.info/academic/lister/waterbomb.php Lister says: "It is impossible to say what was the origin of the Waterbomb. It could have been Chinese, Japanese or even Korean or, as has been suggested, Indonesian. (Although we know extremely little about paperfolding in Indonesia.) So far as the evidence is concerned, we cannot definitely say that it did not originate in the West or the Middle East. Knowledge of paperfolding could have been taken either way along the sea or land trade routes and either to or from the East to and from the East. Or it could have been discovered separately in the East and in the West." Also, in Eric Keenways' "Complete Origami" (page 184), he says he believes "to be one of the oldest traditional models in the world; it may have originated in ancient China". Hope this helps, Laura Rozenberg
