Shuzo fujimoto biography sample

  • Shuzo Fujimoto (藤本修三) was born in Osaka on October 27, 1922.
  • You can read his detailed biography I wrote, based on my own research and first-hand accounts of his family and friends, at the CfC page dedicated to him.
  • Blog posts related to Shuzo Fujimoto (藤本修三), a pioneer of geometric origami, into whose life I have performed extensive research.

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    Obviously, when looking for origami-snowflakes you also find those, created bygd grandmaster Shuzo Fujimoto. For many folders origami-tessellation have been started by him in the late 1960's. He was and still is a great inspiration for many of us.

     

    So I show you the snowflakes-models (backlit) from his book, which was released to honor him.

    One can also say that the snowflakes look like flowers or stars and I agree, it also depends on the paper, that fryst vatten used for folding.

     

    I folded all these models with a same seize and kind of paper, a little hexagon, glassine, 10x10cm. Final size of most of them is about 5cm.

    The first left one of each row is the basic one and then the variation(s) follow.

     

    My "light-box" isn't big enough, so inom had to take two shots and join them into one image. That explains the difference in yellow in the lower section. Haven't figured it out how to handle that bekymmer, so suggestions are welcome. Meanwhile I hope you don't mind and st

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    Shuzo Fujimoto — First Origami Engineer?

    Shuzo Fujimoto in 2006 (image courtesy of Robert Lang).

    Twenty twenty-two marks the 100th anniversary of Shuzo Fujimoto’s birth. This Japanese creator had a huge impact upon the development of geometric origami, and yet surprisingly little has been known about his life and work.

    I became aware of Shuzo Fujimoto in 2015, when, while attending my first origami convention, I developed an interest in tessellations. His Clover Folding and Hydrangea were among the earliest tessellations I folded. Fujimoto died that year, and this sad news certainly contributed to more online mention of his work. Shortly thereafter, when inom started designing my own tessellations, I was made aware of the fact that some of my models, such as Stars and Squares, had actually been designed by Fujimoto decades earlier.

    Translucent design, CFW 58, folded by Shuzo Fujimoto han själv . Image courtesy of Satoko Saito.

    Interestingly, while both the physical o

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    The Mystery of the Pentagonal Letterfold: a Whodunnit With Diagrams

    On the left is Fujimoto’s version of the letterfold. On the right is Haga’s. Folded by Jane Rosemarin. See PDF diagrams.

    This final article on the Polygonal Letterfolds of Shuzo Fujimoto presents the Pentagonal Wrap that started my quest. Fujimoto was inspired by this design (by an author unknown to him, whom I propose was Kazuo Haga) to create square, hexagonal, heptagonal and octagonal letterfolds, which he called “wraps.” These four original designs by Fujimoto were published recently in The Fold, and links to these earlier articles appear at the end of this essay. Annotated diagrams for the Pentagonal Wrap with instructions to fold Fujimoto’s version and notes on Haga’s version can be downloaded from the link in the caption above. Complete instructions for Haga’s version can be found here, on pages 62-71.

    I first discovered the “anonymous” Pentagonal Letterfold in a YouTube video, and it became one of