Gerardo asked:
>I read in Creative Origami by Kunihiko Kasahara, that his model Locust was >based on the locust in Kan-no-mado. Now, if I'm not wrong, its pages only have >traditional models. But I had never heard of a traditional origami >locust >before. Kasahara's model is somewhat similar to the traditional cicada >instead. Do any of you know if Mr. Kasahara is calling "locust" to the >traditional model many of us know as "cicada"? Is the cicada model often >also >acknowledged as a locust? Or are they two different traditional models? I'm sure that Kasahara was referring to the cicada from the Kan no mado, but just using a different name. As far as I know we call it the Cicada because that was the name used in Julia and Martin Brossman's 'A Japanese Paperfolding Classic' which translated the Starr copy of the Kan no mado ms into English. I don't know whether the original Japanese name can bear both translations. More instances of similar designs can be found on my page historyofthekabutobasecicada.htm. Incidentally, I call it the Kabuto Base Cicada simply to distinguish it from another traditional Japanese cicada design historyofthecrossovercicada.htm Dave
