Thousand origami cranes

An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury. The crane in Japan is one of the mystical or holy creatures (others include the dragon and the tortoise), and is said to live for a thousand years. In Japan, it is commonly said that folding 1000 paper origami cranes makes a person's wish come true.

The Thousand Origami Cranes has become a symbol of world peace through the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who tried to stave off her death from leukemia as a result of radiation from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II by making one thousand origami cranes, having folded only 644 before her death, and that her friends completed and buried them all with her. (This is only one version of the story. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum states that she did, in fact, complete the 1,000 cranes.)

The earthquake and tsunami in Japan recently make many people fold the crane to donate and wish Japan quick recovery and hope that their wish come true. i participated in one of the crane folding activity in Penang and hope for Japan recovery too. With Allah will, InsyaAllah it will come true.

Here is an aid for you if you wish to fold it. There are a lot of variation but i think this is the simplest one.



A video:



Happy folding...

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izw
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