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Night Time Super Tiny Chiyogami/ Origami Tsuru (crane) in the Tiny Glass Bottle Pendant

Night Time Super Tiny Chiyogami/ Origami Tsuru (crane) in the Tiny Glass Bottle Pendant

Description

©2009 Atelier Kanawa
This is designed by Atelier Kanawa.
The duplication of this design is strictly prohibited.

[COLOR]
Navy Blue, Gold, White

[SIZE]
Bottle:Approximately 38mm tall
Super Tiny Crane:approximately 6mm wide, 1.7mm tall

[MATERIAL]
Beautiful Chiyo-gami(千代紙) paper, selectively hand-picked from my favorite Chiyo-gami store in Japan
Tiny bottle pendant
Glass Pearl beads

[DESIGN]
* SUPER TINY Origami Crane folded very PRECISELY!
* This tiny tiny tiny~~~~ crane in a glass bottle pendant can be found exclusively in Atelier Kanawa. Please don't miss it (^o^)/
*This item DOES NOT include chain.

[ABOUT TSURU (JAPANESE CRANE)]
In Japan, Cranes are symbol of long life as it is shown in an idiom "Tsuru ha sen-nen, Kame ha man-nen"(Cranes lives thousand years, Turtles live ten thousand years).
We believe that they can reach to heaven because their callings travels far away like they can reach to heaven.(^o^)
They are also symbol of happy married couple.

[ABOUT CHIYO-GAMI]
Most people know about "Ori(fold)gami(paper)-折り紙". There are so many different types of origami paper today, but originally, the word "Ori-gami" derived from "Chiyo(a very long period, like thousand years)-gami(paper). Chiyo-gami paper are traditionally created by hand with the highest quality Japanese paper, and also hand dyed by woodblock print, one color by one color, one paper by one paper just like Kimono fabric. It takes several days to produce one paper. It takes five years to become a Chiyo-gami master.

Therefore, historically, Chiyo-gami was consumed in imperial palace, and also used for calligraphy by upper class Japanese. Ordinary citizens could not own it.
However, the Edo period came, Chiyo-gami spread from Kyoto to Edo(Tokyo)and began to be sold at the store which sells "Nishiki e(picture)". Nishiki picture is gorgeous and colorful woodcut print which is particular to Japanese. Those "Ukiyoe" artist had very good printing techniques, so Chiyo-gami became much cheaper since then.

Nishiki picture was to mainly portrait of Kabuki actor/historical person, so they were just like poster of Tom cruise or something like that:)Girls worked at Edo castle fold Chiyo-gami paper that relates to their favorite Kabuki actors to make something.
This is how Chiyo-gami became very popular.

Added on Oct 16, 2009