Yoshizawa Mouse Survey
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Created by: YOSHIZAWA Akira
Published in: various publications (see details)
Why: Someone asked on the O-list about any mice by Akira Yoshizawa that had four legs. Having folded a couple of Yoshizawa mice that I liked a lot (and taught one, with permission, at an OrigamiUSA convention a number of years ago), I thought I’d do a survey of the Yoshizawa mice that I could find, and here they are.
Starting at the lower right and going counter-clockwise around the image, they are:
from Inochi Yutaka na Origami (Origami Full of Life) (mouse 1)
from Sosaku Origami (Creative Origami) (mouse 2)
from Oru 11 (mouse 3 and mouse 4)
from Oru 11, OrigamiUSA Annual Collection 2000, Akira Yoshizawa ORIGAMI (Exhibition Catalog), Paperart: The Art of Sculpting with Paper, Origami Hakubutsushi 1 (Origami Museum 1), Origami Museum I: Animals (mouse 5)
My favorite: Mouse 2 from “Sosaku Origami”. Mouse 1 from “Inochi…” was a very close second. I was less enthusiastic about the various actual-legged ones.
And the ubiquitous mouse - the one in 6 of the books - is also pretty nice, but definitely works best from wetfolded, thicker paper, or at least softer sheet (e.g. handmade paper or washi), dry folded. And it is incredibly sensitive to the angles you choose when folding the head (there’s some leeway in an early fold that, in typical Yoshizawa-model fashion, has profound effects on the later geometry…)
All the models benefit from folding them multiple times as you start to internalize the proportions, and all work well wet-folded as well!
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