1000+ Origami Cranes

In some countries in Asia, especially in Japan, there is the myth that if you make 1,000 cranes, you will be granted a wish. I read about this when I was very small, in the Philippines, and I believed.

The most famous person to become involved was Sadako Sasaki, in Japan, who at the age of 12 was diagnosed with leukemia and given only a year to live. She was only two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, just a mile away from her home.

While in the hospital, Sadako folded cranes to pass the time, and although she did not recover from her sickness, dying just months after the diagnosis, her legacy lives on. Around the time of her death, other people sent her cranes as well. At lease two statues now stand in her honor, one in Hiroshima, Japan and another in Seattle, Washington, U.S.

Read more about her on Wikipedia and The Children’s Peace Monument. You can follow the links to other articles from there if you want to read more.

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