Background

Name: Takaaki Kakitsuka (self-portrait)
Interests: Watching sports, playing baseball, guitar, EWI, Linux, physics and origami

1971: Born in Japan.
1974: First origami.
1974~1979: I was living in a countryside and playing with insects, spiders, crabs and so on.
1983: I found "Rittai Origami (Three-dimensional origami)", written by Mr. Keisuke Iwakura, in a bookstore. I was surprised to find that complex figures could be folded from a piece of paper.
1986: I made many animal and insect models.
1987: I entered a high school. I did nothing about origami.
1990: I entered an university.
1995: I met Ms. Miyuki Kawamura, a famous origami artist in Japan, at the summer school of elementary particle and nuclear physics. I thought of making web pages and started creation again.
1996: I got a job and forgot about origami again.
1998: I bought a digital camera and started this page.