Shoko Aoyagi's Origami World: Events and Activities

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March 2026

I spent my three years of high school in a dormitory at a mission school. It was for students who lived far away and couldn't commute to school.

My room was a four-person room, with two middle school students and two high school students. Every year around Hinamatsuri, each room would make a set of Hina dolls and hold a competition. The students made some using washi paper, others matched up with matchsticks to create Hina dolls, and I looked forward to seeing them every year. There were probably over 20 rooms.

The judge was Miss Howell, the school's chairperson. Every entry received a prize, such as a prize for "beauty" or "effort," which was appropriate for each piece.

I thought it was wonderful that there were prizes for each piece, not just the top entries.

Shell Hina Dolls were created by Shoko and are featured in "Girls' Origami Book"

Introducing the Hinamatsuri book.
Hinamatsuri
Kazue Watanabe　（Joho Center Shuppankyoku)

February 2026

NOA issue 607

It's too small a boat to carry winter out.
It's too small a boat to carry spring in.
So it will take a while for winter to become spring.

by Hiroshi Yoshino

This poem was introduced in the Asahi Shimbun's Tensei Jingo column last February.

February 2026

NOA issue 607

New Shoko's creation "Fish Shaped Chopstick Sleeve” was introduced in the April 2026 issue of the NOA magazine.
By making it slightly three -dimensional, it can also be used as a chopstick rest.
The theme for the April　issue is ”Spring is here".
Happy folding!

January 2026

Zodiac of Baby Animals: Pony

2026 is the year of the horse.
I wish this year will be a healthy and peaceful one.

My body is now saying "maintenance required". Of course, this year I would like to create pieces that everyone can enjoy folding.

For the past five years, I have been keeping Hanamori Yasuji's "Five-Year Diary". It is a diary in which I can write while looking back on what I was doing on this day last year, or this day two years ago, etc.
At the beginning of each month, a quote from Hanamori is written.
My favorite passage is the following one:

If all the countries in the world threw away all their weapons and used the money for other things, our lives would certainly be better. They would be much brighter.
("Let's Throw Away Our Weapons/1968")
Hanamori Yasuji (1911-1978, Japanese graphic designer, editor, copywriter and jounalist)

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