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There's an ancient Japanese legend that states if someone folds a ''senbazuru''
In modern times it has grown to be been used as a symbol for world peace, spawning from the story of Sadako Sasaki, a girl who died of leukemia from the Hiroshima bombing in [[World War II]]. [
There is something similar called Senninbari. Senninbari was a strip of white cloth, approximately one meter in length, decorated with 1000 stitches in red thread from 1000 women, used as an amulet given to soldiers on their way to war as a part of the Shinto culture of Imperial Japan. The belts were believed to confer courage, good luck and immunity from injury (especially bullets) upon their wearers. See [
This is not to be confused with the Yasunari Kawabata novel "Thousand Cranes", the title of which refers to a certain handkerchief pattern.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Pictured above: in ''Kodomo no Jikan'', after Rin's [[Ill Girl]] mother Aki began to falter in health, Rin started making cranes day after day in an attempt to keep her alive, and Aki was covered in them when she finally died. {{spoiler|Worse still, in Chapter 70 she states that she felt that the reason Aki died is that she couldn't complete all thousand.}}
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', Nunnally gets taught Origami by Sayoko and tells Lelouch about the Thousand Origami Cranes. {{spoiler|In the [[Grand Finale]], C.C. carries an origami crane with her as she starts [[Walking the Earth]] after Zero Requiem.}}
** Also note that Lelouch's sigil when he uses his geass has a flying crane shape and his goal of creating a peaceful world for Nunally. This is reinforced by the later metaphor of geass = wishes.
* In an episode of ''[[Ghost in
* A touching variation in ''[[
* In ''[[
* After [[Deus Angst Machina|the latest in a long line of traumatic experiences]], ''[[
* In ''[[
* Folding paper cranes shows up as a somewhat fitting renumeration in the second season of ''[[Darker
* Another variation: In ''[[
== Literature ==
* Folder from the [[
== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Hiro proves to Charlie he has the power to [[Time Stands Still|freeze time]] by filling a room with 1000 Origami Cranes - and it's also a way of saying his intentions, because he's working against time to prevent her death.
== Video Games ==
* One level in ''[[
* In ''[[
* The opening of a case in ''[[
== Visual Novels ==
* The title of an episode of ''[[Lime
== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[Hanna Is Not a
== Real Life ==
* The most famous attempt and (sad) subversion: Hiroshima bombing victim [
** [[Perplex City]] had a card entitled "Sadako Sasaki" based on this.
** Don't forget the band Hiroshima's touching song [http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=mUtXPq9HGSU&playnext_from=TL&videos=z1sCb8Wm3QE Thousand Cranes,] dedicated to Sadako. The song even urges people to 'send her your thousand cranes' to 'show her we do care.'
** Sadako's story inspired the [
* Sadly, not everyone agrees with the legend of a thousand cranes. [[The Book Of Ratings]] has [https://web.archive.org/web/20100906050442/http://www.bookofratings.com/origami.html this] to say about them.
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