On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 2:57 PM Gerardo @neorigami.com < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone. > > A friend and I were in a discussion. He stated that the rabbit I'm attaching is by Kunihiko Kasahara, and he learned how to fold it about 25 years ago from one of Mr. Kasahara's books, but he doesn't remember which one. I instead declared it's by Stephen O'Hanlon. Here are diagrams on Mr. O'Hanlon's website: http://www.fishgoth.com/origami/anidiag.html ..... <snip> ----------------- Hmmmm.... I have looked into this in the past and I came up with pretty much the same info that you did, Gerardo. What started my quest, at least 5 years ago, was learning the model from Cathy Wilimzig of Phoenix AZ. She had come up with it on her own and thought it was her original design (it was, to her; she called Zig the Bunny). But I had seen it credited to Stephen O'Hanlon and went looking and found a reference to its being his design and I also found his (apparently) diagram for it (it was exactly like the one Cathy made). I told her about it and it was the first she'd heard of it. Anyway, some time later, I heard about the one in the Kasahara book and did locate a diagram, but don't recall now if it was exactly the same, or which book it was in. Seems like it might have been slightly different. ----- Then, in the last year, on a Zoomigami with friends, I taught this model, crediting it to Cathy, but noting the other two references, and Chris Alexander said he had also "created" that model (calls it "Lop-eared Rabbit"), but he gave his a tail (a nice one, by the way, and not hard to incorporate). So, that's what I know about it. ----- I just looked up "bunny" in Gilad's Database and, Holy Moly! There are 200-300 references for some kind or other of bunny or rabbit, the great majority without a picture. Many different designers, loads of different publications (looks like quite a few are the same model published different places). I did see several by Kasahara, but no pictures and they were all in what looked like kid's books, none of which I've seen before. The one credited to Stephen O'Hanlon was there, located in his Personal Collection. Not a great pic of it. Chris's Lop-Eared Rabbit is in there (published in "Difficult Origami" by Chris Alexander), but no picture. ----- I know, doesn't answer the question. We may never know. Happens a lot. :-( ..... from Chila /// ---------------------------------------------------------- Chilagami - I think, therefore I fold; I fold, therefore I am Folding for Fun in Northern Arizona, USA [email protected] Chila's Origami World (COW!) on Facebook -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
