Thousand Cranes (千羽鶴, Senbazuru) is a novel by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata which first appeared in serialised form between 1949 and 1951 and was...
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one thousand origami cranes (千羽鶴, senbazuru, lit. 'one thousand cranes') are made, one for each year. In some stories, it is believed that the cranes must...
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is a children's historical novel written by Canadian-American author Eleanor Coerr and published in 1977. It is based...
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Orizuru (redirect from Paper cranes)
A thousand orizuru strung together is called senbazuru (千羽鶴), meaning "thousand cranes", and it is said that if someone folds a thousand cranes, they...
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the face, but the crowned cranes of the genus Balearica have vibrantly-coloured wings and golden "crowns" of feathers. Cranes fly with their necks extended...
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Sasaki: and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-2169-0. "The City Of Hiroshima - Q. How many paper cranes are sent to the Children's...
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recognize other whooping cranes as their conspecifics, and unsuccessfully tried to pair with sandhill cranes, instead. Florida sandhill crane, Ocala National Forest...
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fit the above definition of a crane, but are generally known as cranes, such as stacker cranes and loader cranes. Cranes were so called from the resemblance...
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common crane (Grus grus), also known as the Eurasian crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. A medium-sized species, it is the only crane commonly...
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crane above her head. Shortly before she passed, she had a vision to create a thousand cranes. Japanese tradition says that if one creates a thousand...
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