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In 1983, he was named to the Order of the Rising Sun.ecstu 发表于 2017-10-11 19:13:40
This is one of the highest honors for a citizen of Japan.ecstu 发表于 2017-10-11 19:13:57
On March 14, 2005, Akira Yoshizawa died from complications of pneumonia. This was his 94th birthday.ecstu 发表于 2017-10-11 19:14:19
On March 14, 2012, Google honored Akira Yoshizawa on what would have been his 101st birthday with an origami doodle on their homepage.ecstu 发表于 2017-10-11 19:14:35
The doodle was created by Dr. Robert J. Lang.ecstu 发表于 2017-10-11 19:14:55
Even though Akira Yoshizawa was a self-taught origami artist, his work was eventually exhibited in shows around the world.ecstu 发表于 2017-10-11 19:15:19
His origami appeared in exhibits at the Cooper Union in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Louvre.ecstu 发表于 2017-10-11 19:15:36
Akira Yoshizawa estimated he created 50,000 different origami models over the course of his career.ecstu 发表于 2017-10-11 19:15:58
However, only a handful of these were ever diagrammed and published.ecstu 发表于 2017-10-11 19:16:27
Simple and elegant lines were the defining features of Akira Yoshizawa's origami models.