Ancient Japanese Art of Origami Thriving in San Francisco

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role in Japanese culture. The English term origami is a transliteration of the Japanese word. "Ori" means "paper," and "gami" means "to fold." San Francisco's Japantown is home to some origami masters, including Linda Tomoko Mihara.
Linda is a third-generation Japanese-American. She is famous for her origami cranes, which once played an important role in Japanese culture.
"It was tradition for the bride to fold 1,000 cranes to wish for a long and prosperous marriage, and also to demonstrate her patience and I guess her humility to show that she would be a good wife, which is a very old way of thinking, but that's how it was in that time," she explained.
Linda's grandparents compiled the first origami handbook ever published in the United States. She began doing origami at the age of five.
She and Lang have worked together. They once created all the origami models for a 3D animated commercial.
"Everything you saw in that commercial except the car was origami. So we did buildings, city buildings, Victorian houses, even the decorations in the streets around the houses. Trash cans, potted plants, street lamps," explained Robert Lang.
The great response that the commercial got has further spurred the two artist's passion to create. They are now hoping to one day do the first-ever origami movie.。