ORU Magazine 7

Published:: 1994 by Sojusha
Pages:: 160
Binding:: Paperback
Language:: Japanese

Skill Level	Simple to complex
Clear diagrams?	Yes
Tinted diagrams (to show 2 sides of paper)?	Yes
Photos of completed models?	Yes
Is there indication to the model size resulting from size of starting paper?	No
Are the models "Pure" origami (From a single square - no cuts)?	Varies

Overall Impression

ORU are a set of 16 large-format commercial magazines published between 1993-1997. They all contain many articles about design, designers and techniques, alongside beautiful photos, with many diagrams in the back.

Articles

Photos of Various Swiss Army knives

"America" series - Mark W. Kennedy and his magnificent jewelery

John Montroll's work - with lots of photos

Young artists: Munenori Ishihara, Naoto Noguchi and Satoshi Kamiya's work (neat Sumo wrestlers)

Folding a large fan

Old diagrams of folding Japanese personages

Mathematical section (?) seems to discuss getting more points from your paper (?)

Weaving

The traditional Junk fold

Tigers - Nishikawa's tigers (with a nice example of a crane with a tiger's face)

Wild boars by Akira Yoshizawa with beautiful b&w photos

Geometric folds and tessellations

A sundial to cut and fold

A religious ceremony involving very big paper hats?

More that I can't figure out?

There are 17 Origami Designs in ORU Magazine 7:

Design	Designer	Page	Details	Photo
Show only designs with photos
Wild boar Mammals - Suidae - Pigs and Boars	Akira Yoshizawa	96	Square	Folded from a square of art paper by Gilad Aharoni
Wild boar Mammals - Suidae - Pigs and Boars	Akira Yoshizawa	97	Square
Sundial Objects - Useful	Jun Maekawa	103	Square To cut and fold
Raccoon Mammals - Procyonidae - Raccoons	John Montroll	125	Square Also in Origami Gone Wild by John Montroll Also in Origami Inside-Out by John Montroll Also in Origami Journal (Russian) 19 1999 5	Folded by Gilad Aharoni
Tiger Mammals - Felidae - Tigers and Leopards	Seiji Nishikawa	131	Square Also in Origami El Mundo Nuevo by Kunihiko Kasahara Also in Works of Seiji Nishikawa by Seiji Nishikawa	Folded by Gilad Aharoni
Smile! People - Anatomic parts	Masaya Horiguchi	135	Square Also in A Arte dos Mestres de Origami by Mari Kanegae Lips and full set of teeth - one of my favorites	Folded by Gilad Aharoni
Pig Mammals - Suidae - Pigs and Boars	Yamada Katsuhisa	139	Square
Crimson plum Flora - Flowers	Tomoko Tanaka	146	Square Multiple units
Swan Birds - Anseriformes - Swans	Toshio Chino	147	Square
Stegosaurus Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals - Jurassic - Stegosaurus	Takai Hiroaki	149	Square Also in NOA Magazine 219 Cute and spiky	Folded from a square of India Gold scrapbooking paper by Gilad Aharoni
Snake Reptiles - Snakes	Kunihiko Kasahara	151	Square Woven
Frog Amphibians	Kunihiko Kasahara	152	Rectangle - Long strip Woven
Eskimo People - Ethnicities	Kunihiko Kasahara	153	Square
Kusudama Geometric and other shapes	Makoto Yamaguchi	155	Square 60 units
Wild boar Mammals - Suidae - Pigs and Boars	Makoto Yamaguchi	157	Square
Party box Boxes and Containers	Abe Hisashi	158	Rectangle - A size
Masu box Boxes and Containers	Traditional	159	Square Also in Beginner Origami by Yoshihide Momotani Also in Creative Origami and Beyond Also in Enjoy Origami in English (Joy of Origami!) by Satoshi Takagi Also in NOA Magazine 134 Also in NOA Magazine 152 Also in NOA Magazine 165 Also in NOA Magazine 167 and in other sources...	Folded by Lou Pearson