EDRAGON.PDF

The Nippon Origami Associations (NOA) magazine, Origami , No. 149 (January, 1988), included diagrams

for a dragon by KITAMURA Keiji. The head was subtle and beautiful, but the body was awkward and

clumsy. The model also required two 2x1 rectangles. I took the head design and grafted it onto a longer

rectangle to create this eastern dragon.

Start with a 5x1 rectangle, coloured side up. (You can use any integer ratio of 4x1 or longer. My longest

dragon started with a 12x1 rectangle.

1. Precrease into squares (all

valley folds).

2. Precrease into half squares

(all valley folds).

3. Precrease into quarter

squares (all valley folds).

4. Precrease into eighth

squares (all valley folds).

5. Precrease in half.

6. Precrease into quarters (all

valley folds).

7. Precrease outer quarters

into eighths (all valley folds).

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8. Precrease outer eighths

into sixteenths (this time,

mountain folds).

9. Precrease first eighth into

sixteenths (again, a mountain

fold).

10. Precrease diagonals of

the first square (again,

mountain folds).

11. Collapse the outer edges

using existing creases,

forming the dragons horns

at the corners.

12. Turn the model over.

13. Precrease.

14. Precrease.

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15. Collapse into rabbit ears.

Do not crease the horns!

16. Precrease. Pay close

attention to which segments

are the landmarks.

17. (Enlarged view.)

Precrease. Pay close

attention to which segments

are the landmarks.

18. Fold up the tip of the

nose.

19. Form a waterbomb base

using existing creases.

20. Inside reverse fold on

existing crease.

21. Outside reverse fold.

22. Fold up the sides of the

head to form the eyes. Tuck

under the horn.

22. Head complete.

The colour change can be

performed at this point by flipping

this raw edge under itself.

23. Open the body at

the front legs.

24. Open the body at

the front legs.

23a. View from the top

(head not shown). Collapse

on creases shown, and fold

the two points toward the

tail.

24a. View from the top

(head not shown). Collapse

on creases shown, and fold

the two points toward the

tail.

25. Valley fold the two front

legs upward, and the two

back legs forward (note the

landmarks).

26. Crimp the front legs.

The head section will also

move.

27. Inside reverse fold the

back corners of the four

legs. A corner will stick out.

28. Fold the bottom edges

of the tail into the middle

using the existing crease

(both sides of the tail).

29. Crimp the body and the tail as

shown. The marked crimps are outside

crimps, and the rest are inside crimps.

(Outside crimps must be opened up

to be formed, much like outside

reverse folds.)

30. Fold the feet forward.

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