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Last updated 4/12/2023

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The Cake Box
 
This page is being used to collect information about the history of the paperfolding design known as the Cake Box. 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.

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In Japan (and in publications by Japanese authors)

1931

As far as I know this design first appear in 'Origami (Part 1)' by Isao Honda, which was first published in Japan in 1931.

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The design also appears:

1944

In 'Origami Shuko' by Isao Honda, which was published in 1944.

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1960

As 'A Square-Shape Box' in 'All About Origami' by Isao Honda, which was published by Toto Bunka Company, Limited in Tokyo in 1960.

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1965

In 'The World of Origami' by Isao Honda, which was published in the USA by Japan Publications Trading Company in 1965.

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In Europe and the Americas

1939

The design appears, as 'Mi cajita' (My little box), in 'El Mundo de Papel' by Dr Nemesio Montero was published by G Miranda in Edicions Infancia in Valladolid in 1939.

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