Books by Yoshizawa

Foxglove · Post by **Foxglove** » October 5th, 2007, 11:18 pm

I've been searching for a book by Akira Yoshizawa, since I really like his style of folding. I already have Origami: Living Nature, but I would like to have more of his books. After searching for some, I came across a title of one his book, Creative Origami. When I looked for this book, I found Creative Origami; however, it said the author was Kashara. Are the models in this book actually by Yoshizawa, and does anyone know where I can find a book by Yoshizawa?

link to Creative Origami by Kashara
http://www.origami-usa.org/thesource/agora.cgi
-> General Books

Post by **origami_8** » October 6th, 2007, 12:22 am

The book by Kasahara and the one by Yoshizawa only have the same title but are indeed different books by different authors. This happens more often on Origami books and some members of the BOS even wrote a nice sarcastic article about this subject (see here, I want some of these titles really badly *sigh*).

However the book by Yoshizawa is also called Sosaku Origami and is available here (as well as some other Yoshizawa books). The page is in German, just go to "Bücher" and "Übersicht" and search for "Yoshizawa, Akira".

HankSimon · Post by **HankSimon** » October 7th, 2007, 12:40 am

Here are some resources for Yoshizawa (and other) Origami Books. NO guarantee that these are in stock, and they may have to order from Japan.
You might find something from Amazon -Japan, if you can read Japanese.

http://www.origami-usa.org/
ORIGAMI: LIVING NATURE ISBN 4-916096-31-2 Author: Yoshizawa $55.00 USD

http://www.sasugabooks.com/
Origami Dokuhon 2 - An Origami Primer 2 (Origami Dokuhon)
Yoshizawa, Akira ISBN 4821604094 $28.80 USD

Origami Dokuhon 1 - An Origami Primer 1 (Origami Dokuhon: Asobikara Sousaku made)
Yoshizawa, Akira ISBN 4821604086 $28.80 USD

Sosaku Origami - Creative Origami (Sosaku Origami)
Yoshizawa, Akira ISBN 4140310286 $36.00 USD

- Hank Simon

Foxglove · Post by **Foxglove** » October 7th, 2007, 1:32 pm

Thanks for all the information, I'm sure one of these sites will prove useful.

denori · Post by **denori** » October 7th, 2007, 6:59 pm

HankSimon wrote: You might find something from Amazon -Japan, if you can read Japanese.

I've actually found it VERY easy to order from Amazon.co.jp even though I don't read any Japanese at all.
Many of the pages are also in English and are laid out in exactly the same way as Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com

If you have ISBNs for the books you're looking for it should be quite easy.
Here's a list:-
http://db.origami.com/showcreator.asp?C ... kira#Books

Unfortunately many of these books don't have a real ISBN, only a publisher's number.

Foxglove · Post by **Foxglove** » October 12th, 2007, 12:16 am

I made the purchase. I got Creative Origami from Sasuga Bookstore; I look forward to recieving it.