The Record
Akira Yoshizawa
1911–2005
Cited on every fold as:
Yoshizawa–Randlett notationGave folding a written language and argued, by folding, that it could be an art rather than a pastime. The notation he published in 1954 — dashed and dotted lines for the two fold directions — is the one every diagram on this site uses.
Source: «Atarashi Origami Geijutsu», 1954. Hatori Koshiro: «Since 1950s, Yoshizawa Akira has searched into the expression of folding paper, and demonstrated that origami has the potential to be a fine art.» ↗