Talk:Tamatebako (origami)

Masao Okamura hasn't done his research
-- this model appears in Isao Honda's "The World of Origami", which dates from 1965. Honda's book was quite popular, so referring to this model as "lost for centuries" is not entirely accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.7.178.186 (talk) 00:04, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Disputed
The versions of the story of Urashimataro told in Japan rarely if ever indicate that the tamatebako is made of paper. The english version of this article gives emphasis to the origami model and ignores the fact that most versions do not say this, not to mention the fact that the original story predates the popularization of origami in Japan. Most visual retellings use a lacquer box with a cord wrapped around it, and the tamatebako enshrined in Urashima Jinja is a lacquered box and not an origami model.

All but one of the sources for this page are origami books and none of them are books about Japanese folktales or its history. The story involving the origami version of the box was probably invented as a made up history of the model.

The box from the story and its references in culture should be the primary subject of the article and the origami model should be a sub-topic of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.99.149.162 (talk) 18:33, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I am in the process of splitting off the different definitions into tamatebako and tamatebako (origami) (as per WP:NOTDICT each article should not write about 2 different meanings of the word). So this should resolve the issue.--Kiyoweap (talk) 04:06, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Moving
I'm going to move the article to Tamatebako (origami) since the topic is more on the origami. I'll split the folkloric content into Tamatebako.--Kiyoweap (talk) 03:43, 11 December 2017 (UTC)