Q 01/05

The word origami combines two Japanese words meaning what?

A) Square and crane

B) Bird and wing

C) Fold and paper

D) Art and hand

Answer · why

C) Fold and paper

Ori comes from the verb oru, to fold; kami means paper.

Q 02/05

What is generally regarded as the best-known origami model?

A) The jumping frog

B) The Japanese paper crane

C) The waterbomb balloon

D) The sailing boat

Answer · why

B) The Japanese paper crane

Modern practitioners discourage cuts, glue and markings on the paper.

Q 03/05

Origami folders use which Japanese term for designs that involve cutting the paper?

A) Orikata

B) Washi

C) Kusudama

D) Kirigami

Answer · why

D) Kirigami

Cutting was common in traditional Japanese folding but fell out of the modern repertoire in the 1960s and 70s.

Q 04/05

What is the modern goal of origami, according to its usual definition?

A) To weave paper strips into baskets and mats

B) To carve stacked sheets into relief panels

C) To cut and paste paper into layered pictures

D) To turn a flat square into a sculpture by folding

Answer · why

D) To turn a flat square into a sculpture by folding

Traditional Edo-period folding was less strict, sometimes using cuts and non-square sheets.

Q 05/05

Folding a thousand paper cranes, senbazuru, is said to grant the folder what?

A) A visit from the gods

B) One wish

C) Immortality

D) A long marriage

Answer · why

B) One wish

The number matches the thousand years the crane was said to live.