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Name: Ari Jigoku, Curly Ant-Lion's Nest
Designer: Tomoko Fuse, Silvana Betti Mamino
Parts: 270
Paper: 3*6 cm
Final height: ~13 cm
Tutorial: stranamasterov.ru/node/144680
Paper: 7. 5cm, Peter Keller's paper "Flieder/Lilac"
Modules: 24 Vertex Modules
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Kusudama Origami Hanakiriko p. 50-51
Tomoko makes an cuboctahedron from those modules. But you can make any polyhedron with four edges meeting at a vertex. So here's a Rhombicuboctahedron with the six beautiful colours from Peter's paper.
Name: Frilled Big Star
Autor: Tomoko Fuse
Photo: Annamaria Colaccino
Joint: nothing
Paper: square
Diagram: Tanteidan Magazine 146
Paper: cutted from 20 cm Glassine
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Spiral: Origami | Art | Design p. 107-110
Video-Tutorial: Sara Adams
Translucency adds a nice twist to this well known model. I cutted away all superfluous layers, working with a strangely shaped hexagon.
Was way harder to fold with glassine, because one can't score that thin paper for the diagonal folds - luckily the resulting imprecision is not so obvious in the final model.
Paper: 9 cm
Modules: 12
Model: Tomoko Fuse (?)
Book: ?
While taking a few (hopefully better) photos of older folds of mine, I stumbled upon this. I folded this in late 2013, right after starting with modular origami (this paper was among the first Origami paper I owned), before I started with Flickr. Most of the models from this time (if decent enough) were posted on Flickr later, but I seem to have skipped this one. Can't even remember where I found the instructions and I am not absolutely sure it's Tomoko Fuse.
Navel Shell
Designer: Tomoko Fuse
Paper: square 25 cm (VOG paper)
Final height: ~ 6 cm, length: ~ 10 cm
Paper: 3.5 x 7cm
Modules: 2, 4, 10 (from two sheets each)
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Unit Origami Essence p. 112-4
Paper: ca. 10 x 15 cm Glassine
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Spiral: Origami | Art | Design p. 48/49
To use this method of not cutting the paper to shape, but only cut three sides and later frame it, was on my mind since I saw the pictures in the book. Having a frame ready where I painted the background black already, made the decision to tackle this an easy one, especially since folding is so fast. Like the result even though it provides possiblities for improvement: make the spiral larger and centre it better.
Tulip Box (Tomoko Fuse)
one uncut square for each (see notes for sizes)
Published in Dijon 2013 Convention Book:
www.flickr.com/photos/goorigami/9450349337/
Folded from printable paper by Leyla Torres.
More about this paper here:
Detail of this pattern.
A few years back this tessellation was the subject of a workshop I gave and I'm learning it to a few friends of mine next week again ;-)). It is interesting, because Tomoko Fuse uses different divisions of the paper and that gives different result. This is a field of version B.
Model: Origami Whirlpool Patterns
Design: Tomoko Fuse
Diagrams and crease pattern in Tanteidan Magazine #64.
In the style of Masaru Hashimoto, Akira Nagashima, Jun Maekawa, Tomoko Fuse, see patent US 6237845 B1.
A crease pattern for the perplexed.
Origami Dodecahedron (Tomoko Fuse)
rectangles 1:2, 30 units, no glue
Unit Polyhedron Origami by Tomoko Fuse, p71
Hooray!!! Let's celebrate Dodecahedron Day:)
A few other variations I found, just playing with this model. I'm surprised that the paper looks as new, although they are folded some years ago.! But I must say I stored them in a closed box, hidden from daylight.
Each one is made from 4 triangle pieces of paper.
Diagrams for the basic 'Origami Spiral 2' by Tomoko Fuse in the Japanese book ISBN4-480-87262-0. But these variations are not so difficult.
In the style of Masaru Hashimoto, Akira Nagashima, Jun Maekawa, Tomoko Fuse, see patent US 6237845 B1.
Paper: Kraft wrapping paper by Clairefontaine ca. 6 x 20 cm
Grid: 32 divisions
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Spiral: Origami | Art | Design p. 29-32
This one can't be moved around, it's very stable. The longer the strip the better the result. As with many models in the book, one may play around with angles to achieve different shapes.
October 27th, 2023, will be the 101st anniversary of Shuzo Fujimoto’s birth. For this anniversary, I’m presenting to you a picture of Fujimoto not published before (as far as I know). It was taken at his home, in or around 2012, and shows Shuzo Fujimoto (sitting) with
editors of his books for Project F, standing from left to right: Taiko Niwa, Satoko Saito, and Tomoko Fuse. Author of the picture is unknown. I got the image from Satoko Saito, who in turn got it from Taiko Niwa. The quality is very poor, and I couldn’t get a higher resolution version, so the version published here is upscaled with AI (some artifacts are visible).
Last year, we celebrated Fujimoto’s 100th birthday, and that was also the year I did most of my research on Fujimoto’s life and work. In 2023, my research had to slow down, but nonetheless I have a few developments to report:
* further work on the Catalog of Fujimoto’s Works
* reverse-engineering some models for which no images are available in Fujimoto’s books, only textual descriptions; I got help from the community with some difficult fragments of Japanese text
* drawing some of those models before I get the time to fold them all
* folding further models and publishing some of them on my web page
* additional research material
* I received from Roberto Morassi a number of models folded by Fujimoto himself
* I got a book and a magazine where Fujimoto’s works were published from Ayumi Hayatsu and Ako Kawasaki
* teaching Fujimoto’s models and talking about his person
* at the German Origami Convention, I gave a talk about Fujimoto and showed models folded by his hand, as well as taught his models
* at Outdoor Origami Meeting, I had a display of my folds of Fujimoto’s designs, taught his models, and published instructions for two of his models in the convention book
* at the Convention of Polish Origami Society, I showed the models folded by Fujimoto himself, talked about his work, and taught his models in what ended up being a several-hour marathon
* I gave origami workshops based on Fujimoto’s designs at my workplace
I wish to thank everyone for the encouragement, additional information, translation help, and research material I have received so far. Even based only on the materials I already have, there is lots of work still waiting to be done.
For a version of this post with additional links, see origami.kosmulski.org/blog/2023-10-26-shuzo-fujimoto-101s...
The yellow-green (left) and the reddish one are 'Origami Spiral 2' by Tomoko Fuse, when you follow the diagrams. The green one above is a small variation.
Diagrams in the Japanese book ISBN4-480-87262-0.
Paper: octagon cutted from 21 cm Julia's kaleidoscopic paper "Weimar"
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Hana no Kazari Origami, p. 74
This is Variant B of this type of star (or is it a flower? Would be so nice to be able to read the names of the models....)
with two more added layers, 30 cm square off leather paper
original star by Tomoko Fuse, diagram published in her book Quilts... thanks to Melisande and Andrew Hudson and >Andrea Acosta I could fold it and play with fractalization (what Andrew did here)
Tomoko Fuse created origami masks representing various types of the Japanese theater and you find the diagrams in her book "The Masks".
This origami model called 'Koshikaki and it is a Gyoudou mask: Carriage carrier's mask.
Folded from tant paper, 35x35cm.
Triangular Origami Boxes (Tomoko Fuse)
each is folded from a single square (15 cm)
Published in "Hako no origami. 3"
Name: ?
Designer: Tomoko Fuse
Variation by Natalia Romanenko
Units: 30
Paper: 7.5*7.5 cm
Final height: ~ 9.5 cm
Joint: no glue
Designer: Tomoko Fuse
Diagram: Beautiful Origami Boxes 3 book by Tomoko Fuse isbn 978-4529053365
Unit: base = one rectangle; lid = one rectangle
Paper: Rice Husk Paper
Paper: ca. 12cm edge length, Hexagon, Sandwich paper
Grid: 24 squares
Model: Star by Tomoko Fuse, tessellated by me
Book: Book: Hana no Kazari Origami p. 97
When I folded this star last year, I noted that it is a Tessellation molecule, but was not sure whether it is collapsable. Nice to realize that I seem to have learned something since then, because when I had a closer look now at the diagram, it look not that hard. In fact it wasn't and the result turned out well. I like that it retains its hexagonal shape.
Paper: Octagon cutted from 15 cm Glassine
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Hana no Kazari Origami p. 54
I wanted to see how this looks backlit, so had to refold it in glassine. To add up not too many layers in the centre, I folded Variant a.
30 units
Designer: David Brill
Folder: Francesco Mancini
Paper: "Tinta unita" by 'Le mille gru' - Vicenza, Italy
Paper size: Square, 7cm
Final diameter: 9cm
Diagram: here
Have a Happy Halloween!
No, wait. It's past Halloween....Happy Thanksgiving?
No?
Okay, then. Merry Christmas.
I am substantially late in delivering my Halloween project this year, but I do not apologize for it. I've been quite busy in the last few months and only had time to work on this during the weekends. What's more, this project was much more ambitious than what I usually fold for Halloween. The shape itself has no formal name, but if I had to give it one, I'd stick with the usual conventions in Stewart Toroid nomenclature and call it an "icosaugmented near-miss rhombicosidodecahedral toroid"—that is, a 20P₃(20Y₃ + 30P₃ ≈ E₅/12P₅(D₅)). With stars.
Intricate though this structure may seem, it is really no harder to make than a "standard" 210-unit tetrahedral symmetry toroid. The only real difference is that I capped each tetrahedron with an open, 9-unit triangular prism "cage" instead of the usual 3-unit triangle.
The final breakdown is as follows:
• Black units: 330 Open Frame Units, from Tomoko Fuse's Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations, pages 65-66. Each unit was folded from a quarter-sized sheet of paper (75x75 mm².) Online instructions for these units can be found on page 4 of this PDF file.
• Orange units: 180 Star Modules, from Miyuki Kawamura's Polyhedron Origami for Beginners, pages 74-75. Although they may not look the part, these really are edge modules, which means that I needed nine of them to create each orange "star" (actually a cumulated triangular prism). Each module was folded from quarter-sized paper.
• Green units: 30 Star Modules folded out of full-sized sheets of paper (150x150 mm²). This double-size Star Module dodecahedron (which very closely resembles a small stellated dodecahedron) just happens to fit in the dodecahedral void at the center of the toroid. This was an unexpected result; before starting the project, I thought that any Star Module polyhedron would fit inside an analogous Open Frame Unit polyhedron folded out of sheets having the same starting size. It was only after I finished folding a miniature Star Module dodecahedron out of 30 quarter-sized sheets that I realized it would be too small to fit snugly in the center.
Big star or small, that central dodecahedron was more or less an afterthought.
While the orange stars do rattle slightly in their cages, the central green star does not. I'm not yet sure if there is any solid way of predicting which Kawamura Star Module polyhedra will be good fits inside their Open Frame Unit equivalent cages and which won't.
This is a variation of 'Origami Spiral 2' by Tomato Fuse. You just don't fold the rabbit ear ;-))
Folded from 4 triangle pieces of paper. And…. it's only one spiral, but you see two, due to the mirror ;-D
When you use thinner or a bigger size of the square, which you divide in two, you won't see any white. I used 15x15 cm.
Diagrams in the Japanese book ISBN4-480-87262-0.
Very similar to Tomoko Fuse's unit
Units: 10
Paper: 7.5*7.5 cm
Final height: ~ 6 cm
Joint: no glue
Diagram: "Unit Origami Essence" p.104-105
Paper: 21 cm for the lid (Julia's Kaledoscopic paper and 20cm for the Box
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Beautiful Boxes 1 (Box A p. 26-27 with a masu box)
I had this paper lying on my desk for some days as I packed it once to fold on the train and forgot what I intended to fold with it. So yesterday I grapped it and once more folded this geometric Fuse box from it. I like the effect how the pattern lines up perfectly in the dimples. Always a pleasure to fold with Julia's papers and see how the final model turns out.
Paper: Octagon with an edge length of 6.7cm, Kraft wrapping paper
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Hana no Kazari Origami p. 62/3
Paper: 20 cm
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Spirals: Origami Art Design p. 113
This is folded the same way as Fuse's Naval Shell, but not the distances are equal but the angles (I used a set square and scored all folding lines). Got very fiddly in the centre, segments are very small there.
Paper: 7.5 cm
Modules: 10
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Unit Origami Essence p. 92-5 (Variant D)
This is the paper from Maria Sinayskaya's book. There's 40 sheets of each pattern, therefore a 10-piece-icosahedron is an ideal usage for the 10 left over sheets after (or before) folding a 30-unit-origami :-)
So one more for my collections of those icosahedra.
Design: Tomoko Fuse
Article to this design: origamitutorials.com/origami-miniature-hexagonal-box/
Folded from one sheet of Origami paper of the size 6.3 cm / 2.4 in length and about 3 cm / 1.1 in height.
Size of finished box has a diameter of 1.6 cm / 0.6 in.
Paper: Kraft wrapping paper by Clairefontaine ca. 10 x 70 cm, painted with acrylics
Grid: 64 divisions
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Spiral: Origami | Art | Design p. 25-26
Had in my mind some days to fold a Sprial or Helix with a colour gradient. So one more two-layered Helix again. Was fun folding and the colour gave me a some orientation how much I've done already ("almost half folded, I'm already at burned Siena"). The colour made the paper quite sticky, perhaps because I used some glaze medium to dilute the golden paint for glazing.
Paper: 10 cm
Modules: 6 face modules, 8 vertex modules, 12 edge modules = 26 modules
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Kusudama Origami Hanakiriko p. 80-3
Each of the variants A,B and C occurs on opposing side, one in yellow, one in orange. Glued for stability, holds without. The octagonal faces are folded from squares, the additional paper is used fo rthe decoration of the center. A nice and typical Fuse Model.
Those of you who have seen some of my other folded pieces will know that I have been strongly influenced by the designs of Tomoko Fuse. One design in particular, a toroid from page 21 of Fuse's book Unit Polyhedron Origami, (mis)taught me that it was possible to bring together twenty identical objects with tetrahedral symmetry to create a "giant ball." Making these toroids (which, as it turns out, are geometrically invalid near-misses, but most people don't notice that) is always an interesting challenge, and they form an integral part of my repertoire.
A different part of the same book teaches the units depicted in this photograph—the Double-Sided Convex and Concave Hexagonal Ring Solid Units—and page 70 describes how to use the latter to make one of the simplest designs: a truncated cube, or T₄ in the Stewart Toroid nomenclature.
And perhaps now you see where I'm going with this. "Wouldn't it be a lark," I thought to myself, "if I revisited Tomoko Fuse's book in order to combine the tetrahedral symmetry toroid concept with her hexagonal ring solid units?" What you see here is the result.
The coloring is simple: a rainbow gradient from the inside to the outside. Each truncated cube contains 3 red units, 3 orange units, 9 yellow units (shared with neighboring truncated cubes), and 6 green units, after which the cycle reverses: 9 light blue units, 3 dark blue units, and finally 3 purple units. The yellow units are convex Hexagonal Ring Solid units, while all of the other units are concave. The distinction is important: using concave units everywhere by merely reversing their creases where needed causes the structure to easily come apart. Glue doesn't help. Trust me, I tried.
When you put 8 elements (triangle shaped) together, you get this starlike shape. Front (above) and backside (below). This also stays more flat. I used kami-paper tis time.
When you use thinner or a bigger size of the square, which you divide in two, you won't see any white. I used 15x15 cm kami-paper.
Model: Origami Spiral 2
Design: Tomoko Fuse
Diagrams in the Japanese book ISBN4-480-87262-0.
Paper: 15 cm for the lid and 21 cm Elephant Hide for the Box
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Beautiful Boxes 1 (Box A p. 26-27 with base p. 10)
I bought a pad of nice papers called "Papers from all over the world" recently (*sigh* arts supply stores, almost as dangerous as origami online shops or bookshops ;-)) . Not all seem to be suitable for folding (or some only with a ton of MC), but all of them are really beautiful. This is one of more ordinary ones :-) So I search for a model which shows large parts of the paper and ended up with this Fuse box. Final decision is to be made: what to keep inside?