History of the crane

[kotwcs]

Hullo everyone!

I'm new here, I was just wondering if anyone might be able to help me. I'm taking a class in which I have to make a demonstration speech on Origami.

I've chosen to focus on the crane, because it is so popular, but I haven't been able to find much information about it. TONS of stuff about how to fold it, the 1,000 cranes story and whatnot but not very much history about it.

What I would like to know is, When was the crane invented and by whom? If it's just been around for ages and no one knows where it came from, that's alright--but if anyone could fill me in on its history, that would be SO COOL.

Thank you so much!!

~kotwcs

[Daydreamer]

You might find this article by David Lister interesting (if you haven't read it yet):
http://www.britishorigami.info/academic ... cranes.htm

As for a creator and date of creation I think I can say for sure that nobody knows about that.
You can also try to search the archives of the Origami Mailing List:
http://origami.kvi.nl/cgi-bin/oigquery.sh

[kotwcs]

Ok thank you!