Tomoko Fuse ( 布施 知子 , Fuse Tomoko , born in Niigata , 1951) is a Japanese origami artist and author of numerous books on the subject of modular origami , and is by many considered as a renowned master in such discipline.
6-632: Fuse first learned origami while in the hospital as a child. When she was 19 years old, she studied for two and a half years with origami master Toyoaki Kawai . She started publishing origami books in 1981, and has since published more than 60 books (plus overseas editions) as of 2006. She has created numerous origami designs, including boxes, kusudama , paper toys, masks, modular polyhedra, as well as other geometric forms and objects, such as origami tessellations , with publications in Japanese, Korean and English. She now resides with her husband Taro Toriumi,
12-480: A hanger. Kusudama can also be used to refer to a type of decoration that is displayed and split open for celebrations. This decoration is more specifically called waritama (割り玉; lit. split ball). Waritama are large, spherical decorations that split in half to release confetti, streamers, balloons, etc. They can be used for a variety of events, including school events, graduation ceremonies, enterprise founding anniversaries, and sports competitions. An emoji depicting
18-562: A respected woodblock printmaker and etcher, in rural Nagano prefecture , Japan. Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations , the English language edition of her seminal modular origami inventions, may be considered the classic text on modular origami available in the English language. In English: In Japanese: In Italian: This Japanese artist–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kusudama The Japanese kusudama (薬玉; lit. medicine ball)
24-494: Is a combination of two Japanese words kusuri ("medicine") and tama ("ball"). They are now typically used as decorations, or as gifts. The kusudama is important in origami particularly as a precursor to modular origami . It is often confused with modular origami, but is not such because the units are strung or pasted together, instead of folded together as most modular construction are made. It is, however, still origami, although origami purists frown upon threading or gluing
30-580: Is a paper model that is usually (although not always) created by sewing multiple identical pyramidal units together using underlying geometric principles of polyhedra to form a spherical shape. Alternately the individual components may be glued together. (e.g. the kusudama in the lower photo is not threaded together) Occasionally, a tassel is attached to the bottom for decoration. The term kusudama originates from ancient Japanese culture, where they were used for incense and potpourri ; possibly originally being actual bunches of flowers or herbs. The word itself
36-409: The units together, while others recognize that early traditional Japanese origami often used both cutting (see thousand origami cranes or senbazuru ) and pasting, and respect kusudama as an ingenious traditional paper folding craft in the origami world. Modern origami masters such as Tomoko Fuse have created new kusudama designs that are entirely assembled without cutting, glue, or thread except as
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