![]() Waritama A waritama being opened to commemorate the completion of the Senbayashi Shopping Arcade in Osaka Modern origami masters such as Tomoko Fuse have created new kusudama designs that are entirely assembled without cutting, glue, or thread except as a hanger. It is, however, still origami, although origami purists frown upon threading or gluing the units together, while others recognize that early traditional Japanese origami often used both cutting (see thousand origami cranes or senbazuru) and pasting, and respect kusudama as an ingenious traditional paper folding craft in the origami world. It is often confused with modular origami, but is not such because the units are strung or pasted together, instead of folded together as most modular construction are made. ![]() The kusudama is important in origami particularly as a precursor to modular origami. They are now typically used as decorations, or as gifts. ![]() The word itself is a combination of two Japanese words kusuri ("medicine") and tama ("ball"). The term kusudama originates from ancient Japanese culture, where they were used for incense and potpourri possibly originally being actual bunches of flowers or herbs. the kusudama in the lower photo is not threaded together) Occasionally, a tassel is attached to the bottom for decoration. Alternately the individual components may be glued together. medicine ball) is a paper model that is usually (although not always) created by sewing multiple identical pyramidal units together using underlying geometric principles of polyhedra to form a spherical shape.
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