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From: Wolf Weidner
Sent: 19 March, 2018 13:25
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Origami] Why did origami become popular in the 1980s ?
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]
Japan was booming in the 80's and things like the Nintendo and the
Playstation became very popular in the west. This triggered the interest in
Japan in general, especially because Japan had been rather 'closed' untill
then. I know that the Japanese community in the Netherlands was very active
in those days, organizing markets and fairs and such. And of course origami
was a part of it being a traditional Japanese art. Dutch people have always
been into crafts, probably because of the Fröbel system we had in
kindergarten (and the bad weather ;-)). This involved folding too so origami
was just the next step.
I for one was very happy with this development because I had been doing
origami since the early 50's and it was really hard to get proper paper and
diagrams. My father had been on several business trips to Japan and brought
me some nice stuff but that's off topic. ;-)
Origards,
Miranda
