Cover Image Property of PUBLISHER
1987 Cover. This image was scanned from my private collection

Cover Image Property of PUBLISHER
1998 Cover. This image was scanned from my private collection

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Symbols and Folding Techniques
  • CHAPTER 1: The Beauty and Delight of Geometric Forms
    • Logical and Lyrical
            Making Froebel's Square
    • Hourglass
            by Jun Maekawa
    • Rotating Tetrahedron
            by Tomoko Fuse
            Origami Ideal
            The Meaning of Dividing
                 The Haga theorem
                 Expansion of the Haga theorem
    • Brain Ticklers
    • Lidded Cube Box
            by David Brill
            Creases and Development Plans
    • Extraterrestrial Being
            by Jun Maekawa
            Folding for Identical Obverse and Reverse Surfaces
    • Iso-area(Obverse/Reverse) Folding Example I-
      Coaster #1
            by Toshikazu Kawasaki
    • Iso-area Folding Example II-
      Coaster #2
            by Toshikazu Kawasaki
            The Kawasaki theorem of creasing
    • Iso-area Folding Example III-
      Kawasaki Cube #1
            by Toshikazu Kawasaki
    • Variation of Kawasaki Cube #1
            by Toshikazu Kawasaki
            Cube and Octahedron
    • Iso-area Folding Example IV-
            Kawasaki Cube #2
            Toshikazu Kawasaki
    • Supersonic Reconnaissance SR-71
            by Toshikazu Kawasaki
    • Space Shuttle
            by Toshikazu Kawasaki
            Modular Origami
    • Sonobe Module
            by Mitsunobu Sonobe
    • Simplified Sonobe Module- Bicolor Diabolo Pattern
            by Kunihiko Kasahara
            Exploring the Multimodular Sphere
            Polyhedrons and Multimodular Sphere
            Paper Sculpture from Units
    • Bottle
            by David Brill
    • Regular Polyhedrons from Single Sheets of Square Paper
            by Kazuo Haga
            Tetrahedron(independently invented by Haga, Kasahara, and Maekawa)
    • The HK Cube, or Trick Dice,
            independently invented by Haga and Kasahara
    • Octahedron
            by Kazuo Haga
    • Icosahedron
            by Kazuo Haga
    • Dodecahedron
            by Kazuo Haga
                 Plan drawing for a dodecahedron
            The Limitless Appeal of the Cube
    • The Fujimoto Cube
            Shuzo Fujimoto
    • The Hosoya Cube- Folding Two Components and Then Assembling Them to Make a Cube
            by Haruo Hosoya
            Applications of the Hosoya Cube
    • The Tomoko Unit
            by Tomoko Fuse
    • Rotating Ring of Cubes
            by Hisashi Matsumoto
    • Seven Geometric Forms
            by Jun Maekawa
                 Model No. 1 (Cubic carrying box of a traditional kind call okamochi)
                 Model No. 2 (Half a cube)
                 Model No. 3 (Once again, half a cube)
                 Model No. 4 (Divided masu measuring box)
                 Model No. 5 (semiregular decahedron with some reentrant corners)
                 Model No. 6
                 Model No. 7 (Iso-area folding)
    • Dodecahedron Unit
            by Jun Maekawa
    • Octahedron Folded in the Iso-area Way
            by Toshikazu Kawasaki
                 Preparing regular-hexagonal paper
    • Ptarmigan- Icosahedron
            by Kohji and Mitsue Fushimi
  • CHAPTER 2: Creases Have Messages to Make
    • Competing for the Fun of It
    • Kitten
            by Toshikazu Kawasaki
            New Developments on Basic Patterns
    • Goose, Pelican
            by John Montroll
    • Clapper Rail
            by Jun Maekawa
    • Kangaroo, Giraffe
            by Peter Engel
    • Malay Tapir
            by Jun Maekawa
    • Horse
            by David Brill
    • Fox
            by Toshikazu Kawasaki
    • Camellia, Bloom, and Branch
            by Toshie Takahama
    • Rose, Three Vegetables(Green Pepper, Eggplant, Daikon Radish)
            by Toshikazu Kawasaki
    • Flower-cut Hard-boiled Egg
            Toshikazu Kawasaki
    • Pine Cone, Spiral Snail Shell, Sea-Snail Shell, Murex Shell
            by Toshikazu Kawasaki
    • Ground Beetle, Ramphorhynchus, Stegosaurus
            by John Montroll
  • Postscript

Title: Origami for the Connoisseur
Author: Kunihiko Kasahara
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1987;1998
Publisher: Japan Publications, Tokyo, Japan
Page Count: 167
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11 1/2" x 8 1/4"
ISBN: 0870406701

SUMMARY- This is a book for people with solid experience as folders, love math, and like puzzles and brain teasers.