He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living art. According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50,000 models, of which only a few hundred designs were presented as diagrams in his 18 books.
In 2000, Yoshizawa debuted as a 4th generation member of the idol girl group Morning Musume and became their leader in 2005 until leaving the group in 2007.
Tokugawa Yoshinobu was the last Tokugawa shogun of Japan, who helped make the Meiji Restoration (1868)—the overthrow of the shogunate and restoration of power to the emperor—a relatively peaceful transition.
Yoshimura Research & Development Legacy In 1954 Hideo "Pops" Yoshimura started the company Yoshimura in Japan. Pops was trained as an airplane mechanic during the war and afterward made quite a reputation working on the BSA's and Triumph's…