| The Public Paperfolding History Project
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| The Wild Goose | |||||||
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page is being used to collect informaton about the
history of the paperfold known as the Wild Goose, which
is folded from an equilateral triangle. 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. ********** 1896 onwards The earliest reference to this a design of this kind that I know of appears in Part 2 of 'The Republic of Childhood', titled 'Froebel's Occupations', by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, which was published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, of Boston and New York in 1896, which contains reference to 'a wild goose' folded from an equilateral triangle among specimens of work from the Empress's kindergarten in Tokyo.
********** 1944 'Origami Shuko' by Isao Honda, which was published in 1944, contains diagrams for the Wild Goose design. The text appears to attribute the creation of this design to Akira Yoshizawa.
********** 1957 'Origami Dokuhon' (Origami Reader) by Akira Yoshizawa, which was published by Ryokuchi-Sha in 1957 (see left hand column of illustration below) contains the same Woild Goose design. There is no claim of authorship of any of the designs in this book.
********** 1959 'How to Make Origami' by Isao Honda, which was published by Toto Shuppan Co. Ltd in Japan. by McDowell Obolensky of New York in the USA and by Museum Press Ltd of London in England, in 1959, also includes this design. No attribution is given.
********** 1965 The same design appears in 'The World of Origami' by Isao Honda, which was published in English in the USA by Japan Publications Trading Company in 1965. Again no attribution of authorship is given.
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