Crane Ornament
Japanese tradition holds that the person who folds 1,000 paper cranes will be granted a wish. Human hands have folded the paper crane for thousands of years with many wishes being granted. This crane hangs delicately from a 3 1/2” thin gold metallic thread and can be suspended anywhere you’d like a reminder towards peace…..dreams….wishes…...
The crane ornament has a 4″ wingspan and is made from a 4 1/2” Square of Japanese Yuzen paper. It hangs from a 3 1/2” gold metallic thread. It was created thousands of years ago making it’s creator unknown. Each ornament comes with the story of Sadako below:
The Story of Sadako Sasaki
In 1955, a twelve-year old girl died of leukemia which she developed after the U.S. dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. During her illness, Sadako was visited by her best friend Chizuko, who reminded Sadako of the old Japanese story that the crane lives for a thousand years, and that the person who folds 1,000 paper cranes will have a wish granted. Chizuko folded a gold crane and gave it to Sadako as a gift of hope for her friend. Sadako began folding paper cranes out of her medicine wrappers, as she prayed to recover from her fatal disease. She folded 644 cranes before she died. To honor her memory, Sadako’s classmates folded 356 more cranes so that she could be buried with one thousand cranes. Money was collected all over Japan to erect a monument to Sadako in Hiroshima’s Peace Park.
The inscription on its base reads:
This is our cry,
This is our prayer,
Peace in the world.