Origami
Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding. Hiro Nakamura is skilled in this practice.
Shapes Observed
- Crane
About
The Crane
As a tribue to his deceased grandfather, Hiro folds a paper crane out of Issue #1 of his Superman comic book. When he arrives at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, he finds he is not the only one to do so.
Six Months Ago
Hiro Nakamura is trying to find a way to convince Charlie Andrews that he has traveled back in time to see her. First, he brings a newspaper to the diner and shows Charlie Japanese baseball results, where the "Swallows slay the Dragons". Hiro attempts to explain the Japanese tradition of origami and Charlie responds she read about it. She comments that if someone folds a thousand cranes that they'll be granted one wish. Hiro concentrates, and in an instant, Charlie is surrounded by hundreds of paper cranes hanging from the ceiling.
Gallery
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Hiro dismantles a comic book to fold a crane.
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Hiro leaves his crane at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial shrine.
External Links
- Legend of the thousand origami cranes on Wikipedia
- Paper Crane, How to Fold Instructions