The Public Paperfolding History Project
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The Incense Box | |||||||
This
page attempts to record what is known about the origin
and history of the origami design known as the Incense
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. ********** 1905 As far as I know this design first appears, as Incense Box, in 'Shukouka Kyohon : Liron Jishuu Souga Setsumei' by Kikujiro Kiuchi, Rokushiro Uehara and Hideyoshi Okayama, which was published by Shigebei Takase in Chiba in 1905. ********** The same design also appears: 1931 In 'Origami (Part 1)' by Isao Honda, which was first published in Japan in 1931. ********** 1958 As 'Candy Box' in 'Origami: Book Two' by Florence Sakade, which was published by the Charles E Tuttle Company in Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo in 1958 ********** |
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