Grandmaster of origami - Akira Yoshizawa (Akira Yoshizawa) Bashny.Net

Japanese master is considered one of the leading origamistov in the world. For his whole life he has developed more than fifty thousand models that remain relevant to this day. This material is devoted to the 101 year anniversary of the birth wizard.

Unfortunately, Akira Yoshizawa (Akira Yoshizawa) left this mortal world seven years ago. But he left behind a huge number of students and a great legacy in the form of the alphabet origami and thousands of models. The first attempts to collect origami, Akira taken at the age of three. Since then, this passion did not leave him. Even when the Japanese worked at an engineering plant, the basics of descriptive geometry of the wards he taught on the basis of the art of origami. 22-year-old struck all the learning outcomes and are particularly suitable, because every Japanese know what origami. After leaving the factory and surrender completely to the hobby, Akira lived about 20 years in abject poverty. Only after the war he had a permanent perk in the journal. Today published 18 of his books, with several reissues. During his lifetime, Yoshizawa has long been a cultural ambassador of Japan, and was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun from the hands of Emperor Hirohito. One of the key contributions to the art of origami from Akira considered the idea of ​​using a damp paper can significantly increase the "handling" of the paper.