| The Public Paperfolding History Project
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| Frogs, Toads and Tadpoles | |||||||
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page is being used to collect information about the
history of paper frogs, toads and tadpoles. Please
contact me if you know any of this information is
incorrect or if you have any other information that
should be added. Thank you. ********** The Blow-Up Frog - c1720 onwards
*********** The Cut Frog - 1885 onwards
********** 1893 Diagrams for a simple frog (the lower figure) appeared in 1893 in volume 5 issue 13 of Shokokumin children's magazine.
********** The Waterbomb Base Frog - 1910 onwards
********** 1907 This design, called El Sapo (The Toad), appears in an article titled 'El trabajo manual escolar' by Vicente Casto Legua in the January 1907 issue of the Spanish magazine 'La Escuela Moderna' which was published in Madrid by Los Sucesores de Hernando. Despite its name it seems to me to resemble a tadpole with legs rather than a toad.
********** 1917 This design for a 'Toad' appears in 'Xu Zhe zhi tu shuo' (More Illustrated Paperfolding) by Yongxiang Shi, which was published by the Commercial Press in Shanghai in 1917.
********** 1933 A cut Frog appears in 'Jeux de pliages' by Ferdinand Krch, which was published by Flammarion in Paris in 1933.
********** 1944 A design for a Frog from an equilateral triangle, attributed to Akira Yoshizawa, appears in 'Origami Shuko' by Isao Honda, which was published in 1944.
********** The Jumping Frog - 1963
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