Lets Make Origami

How nice! We finally have a paper crane in the land of origamis - Japan. 

On Saturday I received the nicest message ever. I girl, sweet as a teddy bear, wrote me in Facebook that she has read the blog and she had already left one paper crane in Japan. That's why I decided to give her name to the origami. So if you find this yellow fellow you could call it "Natsuko" or "Sweety", both suits very good.

Natsuko (the girl, not the paper bird) lives in Saku-shi, Nagano Prefecture but she left the origami under cherry blossom tree in Nagano city.  Nagano is most famous for Zenko-ji, a 7th century Buddhist temple which overlooks the city. From the photos which Natsuko has uploaded from the city I could easily say that this is one amazing and very beautiful place. 

But like every good story, we need a pretext... or simply said - how lostorigami managed to go to Japan so fast?

Ones upon a time there was one sweet 22-year-old girl who lived in mysterious and beautiful land. Suddenly she found herself in another mysterious but very different place. The name of this new land sounded like the native people of it will be always hungry. Still, the little girl was exited about this new land. She thought that everything so far away should be different but actually she found other people - just the same like her. She also realized that there are people who cherish her culture, even though her home is so far away.
One day she met another boy, who was far away from home. He was leaving paper cranes in central places this new land. She was interested why the boy does that and he explained her that he is simply spreading them everywhere he goes, hoping that someone will continue the chain. He took photos of the paper cranes and sent them to another girl, living in even more exotic place. The girl from the faraway land was amazed by the story of the boy but most of all - she was exited. She wanted to continue the chain. So when she returned to her faraway land she did...

Origamis continue travelling through Europe. This one is made by Yuya, who is travelling around the world almost a year now. Yuya is a Japanese so he is perfect for making origami. When you think for Japan (if you are not from Asia of course) the first associations which will came to you mind are: small Asians, taking a lot of photos and hi-tech. If you think harder in your mind will emerge images of origami, tea, karate and sushi. 

Well, Yuya is not fitting the profile - he has long rasta hair, wears wide jeans and sports jacket. He is not crazy hi-tech owner, but he does take a lot of photos. Still he cannot make sushi. Actually his first sushi he made with me, or at least he said so. But origami... oh, he is the master of them. And each one of his paper cranes just smiles at you. That's what I call the power of native maker. 

He really liked the idea for lost origami. He liked it enough to write about it in his blog, which right now is one of the most read blogs in Japan. It's on first place of some rating site for travel blogs. His blog is amazing, however it is in Japanese, so I have hard time reading it, and lets face it - Google translator sucks in Japanese. I hope that he wrote nice things about me and didn't share the color of my underwear for example. Whatever he wrote it was good enough because yesterday I have more than 700 page views from Japan. I really hope that origamis will start spreading in Asia soon...

So here are the first traveller from Yuya. He left it in front of Terror Haza  (Hous of Terror) in Budapest. It is a  unique house-museum, which is made to the memory of those held captive, tortured and killed in this same building, which, by the way, survived two terror regimes. I think Yuya choose a very Hungarian place for his first origami. A place sad but unique which represents the strength and will of Hungarians.