3D animated diagrams to make origami peace crane. Hiroshima peace memorial day 6th August.
http://origami.org.uk/origamicrane
THE PEACE CRANE
Within Asia the white crane is the bird of peace. originally it was the sort of peace that comes with
prosperity and friendship.
prosperity and friendship.
The crane took greater significance as a peace symbol within Japan right after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. in 1955 when an eleven year old japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki was diagnosed with leukemia from exposure to nuclear radiation. She heard that if she folded a thousand paper cranes, she would be granted a wish. so she began folding one crane after another, wishing for a well body within a world of peace. sadly, she died within the year, but her story went out to the people of the world and an organisation has been founded in memory of Sadako whose purpose is to unite children in the effort for peace - ‘the world peace project for children’.
