Origami Stars Folding Paper maneki Chigiri-e is the Japanese art

Chigiri-e is the Japanese art form in which the primary technique uses coloured paper that is torn to create images

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Origami Stars Folding Paper maneki Chigiri-e is the Japanese artThe tale of paper stars begins with a story of a little girl in Japan named Hoshi. Hoshi loved stargazing and admiring the stars in the night sky. One night, she saw the stars falling in a meteor shower and was saddened that they had fallen. Because she wanted to keep the stars from falling, she began to fold paper stars for every star she saw fall out of the sky, even gathering the other children in her village to help. They ended up making about two