Let's have the paper fortune teller read your fortune!

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This is NAIGNOWA staff.

The intense heat of summer has finally subsided in Japan, and I feel like the scent of autumn is slowly beginning to drift through the air.
Now then, do you remember that article I wrote a while back about folding a cat and a heart out of origami paper?
To be honest, I don't have a huge origami repertoire myself, but I just remembered there's a piece I often fold that I haven't introduced yet.

This is the work known as “Pakupaku” in Japanese!
I hear it's called a Paper Fortune Teller in English.

In Japanese, it's called “Pakupaku” because it looks like it's opening its mouth to eat things, just like the Piranha Plant in Super Mario.
But the English name is based on how you play with it, isn't it?
This origami is also popular as a toy that can tell fortunes.

The “Pakupaku” in the video isn't for fortune-telling, so if I get the chance, I'll try posting a fortune-telling Pakupaku too.

Well, that's all for today.

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