Hello. Now that I have some more time, I'm looking again on the topic of
the creator of the three-piece spinning top of Japanese origin. This
conversation on the mailing list date around September 2019. Everyone that
answered told me it was either Makoto Yamaguchi or Taichiro Hasegawa. So I
still
Years ago, the late Dorothy Engleman maintained a web site to showcase models
taught at our monthly Pacific Ocean Paperfolders (POP). After she died, Gilad
Aharoni kindly agreed to continue hosting those pages. You'll find links to the
Hasegawa spinner diagrams on this page:
Dear Gerardo
This is my investigation about Origami spining top, at 8 May 2019.
https://blog.naver.com/titan101/221532361589
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About the author of Origami spining top(Paper blade, おりがみコマ)
day/month/year
5/3/2007
The view that it is a variation
A year or two ago I ran across the second spinner and it is, indeed, by
Taichiro Hasegawa. It can be made as a two-piece “Lotus Spinner,” which is made
to spin by blowing down on it from above, or you can add a third piece, a sort
of handle, which you can then spin by hand.
I don’t remember
I sent a message on August 26 asking for the name of two models and of
their creators. These are the models:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZXtvbOtlYacIb-14WBvNogznzaLdAkxeckHHgKrbHpLzNRT51Yd7UwYPh1OFttHe0EIlL0E6RBSuL3yHxVjHTwCW0n2q4qfa-gZJPTF42Gy-KYtzaSQhH_T371Buv_XBvDQCWtYKdw=w2400
A friend taught me how to make the following models. They're very popular
on the web. I've known about them for years. I want to find out their
respective name and creator because I wish to give them away and it's
important for me to write that down on the folds.
Thank you in advance.
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