Thousand origami cranes (千羽鶴 Senbazuru) is a group of one thousand origami paper cranes (鶴 tsuru)
held together by strings.
An ancient Japanese legend promises that
anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a
crane or some stories believe you are granted eternal good luck, instead
of just one wish, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury.
This makes them popular gifts for special friends and family.
The crane
in Japan is one of the mystical or holy creatures (others include the
dragon and the tortoise), and is said to live for a thousand years and
that is why 1000 cranes are made, one for each year, in some stories it
is also believed that the 1000 cranes must be completed within a year
and they must all be made by the person who is to make the wish at the
end, cranes that are made by that person but given away to another don't
include either, all cranes must be kept by the person wishing at the
end.
The Thousand Origami Cranes was popularized through the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who was two years old when she was exposed to radiation from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II. Sasaki soon developed leukemia
and, at age 12, inspired by the Senbazuru legend, began making origami
cranes with the goal of making one thousand. In a popular version of the
story as told in the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes,
she folded only 644 before her death; in her honor, her classmates felt
sorry for her death and agree to complete the rest for her. In an
alternate version of the story, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum states that she did in fact complete the 1,000 cranes, but continued past that when her wish did not come true.[citation needed]
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