Origami artist dies of cooties
TOKYO - Akira Yoshizawa, an origami master whose expressive paper gorillas made an art out of Japan's craft tradition, died March 14 of heart failure and pneumonia, his wife said Sunday. He was 94.
``I must give him his due. He has considerably cretinized me.'' Lautréamont
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