The grandmaster of modern origami, credited with tens of thousands of models and with raising paper folding from pastime to living art. He pioneered wet-folding, which gives paper sculptural, rounded forms, and co-devised the diagram notation of dots, dashes and arrows that folders everywhere still read. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Defining ContributionModern origami as art; wet-folding; the Yoshizawa-Randlett diagram notation 1 Connections
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Akira Yoshizawa (吉澤 章, Yoshizawa Akira; 14 March 1911 – 14 March 2005) was a Japanese origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami.
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