Hey, I'm Manami!

Having grown up in an historic part of the Tokyo city, I have been very interested in Japanese traditional culture since I was small. I studied how to protect old sites and traditions. After spending some time in Europe for studying and an internship, I started some projects to share the culture in English and started teaching origami.  When I was 7, we lived abroad and since we were isolated without any internet nor smartphones (it was early 1990's), as a family, we played many games including origami at home. That's how origami became part of my life.  My origami experience is about mo...