There's a special culture, Origami (Paper Folding), in Japan. I'll show you one of the websites that handle it.
http://www.origami.com/
I can make some of them that are introduced in this website. The Origami crane is very famous and most Japanese can make it from a piece of paper. When they offer a special prayer on something, they often make 1000 cranes and connect them with strings (we call it Senbaduru). If you want to see it, search "Senbaduru" in the images database of Google. You can find many pictures of Senbaduru.
By the way, take a look at the picture. What do you think is it? What do you think it's made from? The left is made from a 10,000 yen bill and the right a 1,000 yen bill. The 10,000 yen bill features Mr. Yukichi Fukuzawa and the 1,000 yen bill Dr. Hideyo Noguchi. Therefore, these are called Masked Yukichi and Turbaned Noguchi. They never even dreamed that they would be drawn on the bill and be the object of Origami.
When I attended the beer party on July 28th, a friend showed me them and I asked him promptly to exchange my plain bills with them. It was so delightful to look at them and I showed them off to my wife and my staff members today. To my surprise and regret, my wife and many of my colleagues already knew about it. I might be out of style!
At any rate, I wonder who figured it out?
(Vocabulary)
offer prayers for the souls of the victims 犠牲者のめい福を祈る
offer prayers to God 神に祈りをささげる
out of style →out-of-style
out-of-style 流行遅れの
(KW: 福沢諭吉 野口英世 日本 紙幣)
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