The origami crane by Becca

How to make ...

beccag1999 — 2014-03-02 13:09:38 UTC

The origami crane is ment to hold good luck...

beccag1999 — 2014-03-02 13:11:06 UTC

...also legend says that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their heart's desire come true

The story behind it...

beccag1999 — 2014-03-02 13:13:49 UTC

One of the most famous origami designs is the Japanese crane. The crane is auspicious in Japanese culture. Legend says that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their heart's desire come true. The origami crane (折鶴 orizuru in Japanese) has become a symbol of peace because of this belief and because of a young Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki. Sadako was exposed to the radiation of the atomic bombing of horoshima as an infant, and it took its inevitable toll on her health. She was then a hibakusha— an atom bomb survivor. By the time she was twelve in 1955, she was dying of leukemia. Hearing the legend, she decided to fold one thousand origami cranes so that she could live. However, when she saw that the other children in her ward were dying, she realized that she would not survive and wished instead for world peace and an end to suffering.

A popular version of the tale is that Sadako folded 644 cranes before she died; her classmates then continued folding cranes in honor of their friend. She was buried with a wreath of 1,000 cranes to honor her dream. While her effort could not extend her life, it moved her friends to make a granite statue of Sadako in the Horoshima peace park: a girl standing with her hands outstretched, a paper crane flying from her fingertips. Every year the statue is adorned with thousands of wreaths of a thousand origami cranes. A group of one thousand paper cranes is called senbazuru in Japanese (千羽鶴).

The tale of Sadako has been dramatized in many books and movies. In one version, Sadako wrote a haikuthat translates into English as:

I shall write peace upon your wings, and you shall fly around the world so that children will no longer have to die this way

Hello...

beccag1999 — 2014-03-02 13:17:19 UTC

I have decided to write a short page about why I make origami cranes because I feel it is very important that the world knows. Also I am sure by the end of it you shall be making paper cranes as well.

It all started in 2011 when I was in year 9 learning about the battle of the some and Hiroshima so I have started with:

-How to make

-The origami crane is meant to hold good luck

- what has this got to do with WWI?

-The story behind it

also please post a picture of your origami cranes in the hopes we can get to a thousand.

What has this got to do with WWI?

beccag1999 — 2014-03-02 13:23:41 UTC

During wwI the Japanese decided to bomb pearl harbour there for draging America into the war. At the end of WWI the Americans and the Japanese were still fighting. So the Americans decided that the only way to end the war was to drop the newly invented atomic bomb in the middle of Japan's war industry (eg Hiroshima ). So on the 6th of August 1935 the plane Angola-gay set out to drop the bomb on the T bridge. The effects of the bomb was devastating buildings collapsed, people were burnt onto the walls they were standing next to. For miles around all that was left was destruction and devastation. One girl all they found was her lunch box so as you can imagine you were lucky if your relatives had a part of your body to bury. Even on the outskirts of the damage the people had still developed leukaemia.

2021-03-03 10:09:19 UTC