Nichi Bei News columnist Linda Mihara, a San Francisco native, has been folding origami since the age of five. She is granddaughter of Tokinobu Mihara, author of two of the first books on origami in the English language. Today she is an award-winning origami artist and proprietor of Paper Tree, known as “The Origami Store,” in San Francisco’s Japantown. To contact Linda, e-mail: linda@paper-tree.com.

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