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Origami is one of many examples of skills valued in Japan that combine simplicity with beauty, Others include calligraphy, the tea ceremony and Flower Arranging. Origami represents the Zen like ability to fold a piece of paper into a complex three dimensional object. The skill comes in doing the folds without error and with adeptness of mechanical perfection that allows the figure to be exactly constructed. The art comes from doing the creation of the object from an intuitive understanding of the shapes that can be created without recourse to instruction books or guidance.

In the west we think of origami as the mechanical process of taking a piece of paper and following a set of complex instructions until the result indicated is reached (more or less)

In Japan origami is the ability to see the finished figure in the paper and fold it the way the paper must go to realize the shape.

This ability parallels the Japanese approach to life and is another example of the perfection we all strive for.

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