Hello, I am Yoshi from NILS Japanese language school. This week’s NILS acitivity was Origami 折り紙.
Origami is a traditional kind of recreation in which you fold square paper into various figures and shapes such as animals, birds, flowers, vehicles, baskets, balloons and many other things. Neither glue nor scissors are needed. Most children learn how to make origami, and most people can make folded cranes. People customarily make 1,000 folded cranes and link them together by thread in order to give them to a sick person, making a wish that the sickness will be cured soon, since a crane is a symbol of long life. Some think that Japanese are relatively skillful with their fingers because they are taught it as children. Today origami is also taught in many other countries.

Let’s make a crane!

March 16th News, from NILS Japanese language school.