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千羽鶴 senbazuru 1000 Cranes

千羽鶴 (senbazuru) is a string of many folded paper cranes, traditionally a thousand, and before that a textile pattern, on record from 1719. The folded string is on record from 1828, and the saying that it grants a wish from 1939. This study follows the word to Sadako Sasaki and to her 644 cranes, a number in the Japanese press by 1956 that her family disputes.

千羽鶴 · senbazuru · 1000 Cranes — many folded paper cranes strung on thread, offered at shrines and given to the sick; also a pattern of many cranes

Abstract

千羽鶴, senbazuru, is a string of many folded paper cranes, traditionally a thousand, offered at shrines and given to the sick, and before that a pattern of many cranes, on record from 1719; the crane lives a thousand years, so the thousand is a long life. The folded string is on record from 1828 and has a dictionary headword by 1893, and by the 1920s it hangs from house ceilings against summer flies, at shrines for a girl's accomplishments, and among the offerings in the hall where a girl prays for her sick mother; a book of 1939 records the saying that a thousand cranes offered to the gods grant a wish. Sadako Sasaki, the Hiroshima schoolgirl the word is now best known for, folded cranes in hospital in 1955 and died that October at twelve. The number 644, given for the cranes she folded, is in a Japanese weekly by August 1956 and in the Japanese peace movement's English bulletin in 1958, three years before the earliest known book in English; her family says she passed a thousand and went on.

Overview

The sense. Many folded paper cranes strung on thread, traditionally a thousand, offered at shrines and given to the sick; and a pattern of many cranes. 大辞泉 gives the two senses in that order: 折り鶴を数多く糸に通して連ねたもの, with the custom of offering them at shrines and temples and, today, of giving them for comfort or to the sick; and 多数の鶴を表した模様. 精選版日本国語大辞典 dates the pattern sense to 1719 and the folded sense to 1828: the pattern is attested a century before the folded string [1]. 折鶴, the single folded crane, is separately dated to 1773 [1].

The words. 千 sen is a thousand. 羽 is the counter for birds, read wa on its own and ba after 千, as in 三羽 sanba. 鶴 tsuru is the crane, voiced to -zuru at the end of the compound. So the word is sen-ba-zuru, a thousand birds that are cranes, and the dz in the wapuro spelling senbadzuru is a typing convention for the same syllable. The crane's thousand years come from a Chinese book of the second century BC, the 淮南子, which the proverb 鶴は千年亀は万年, the crane a thousand years, the tortoise ten thousand, has carried in Japanese since the 御伽草子 tale of Urashima Tarō, the national dictionary's first citation for it. A thousand cranes is therefore not a count but a wish, and the dictionaries say so: 千羽は多数の意で、かならずしも正確な数をいうのではない, the thousand means many and need not be exact [1].

The text in English. JMdict gives せんばづる, (string of) many (traditionally 1000) paper cranes, and separately lists the Kawabata title, Thousand Cranes [2]. The house's title, 1000 Cranes, gives the literal count in figures.

The historical record

1719, 近松門左衛門, 傾城島原蛙合戦, a puppet play. The fifth act, 松竹梅嫁入雛形, stages a wedding as a kimono pattern book, and the bride is dressed in it: 先づ上着のお小袖は。千代を染込む松葉色松に群れゐる千羽鶴。十二の雛を飼ひ育て。君が幾代の友鶴と。壽きてこそ染めにけり, first the outer kosode: a thousand years dyed into pine-needle green, a thousand cranes flocking in the pines, rearing twelve chicks; dyed to wish you the ages of companion cranes. The thousand cranes are a pattern on silk, and the twelve chicks the wish for children that a wedding robe carries. This is the earliest use the national dictionary gives, and it is a pattern, not a paper bird [3].

1751, a haikai anthology, 頭陀袋. A verse by 桃朝 ends 名も万年の千羽鶴, a thousand cranes whose name is ten thousand years, the crane's thousand and the tortoise's ten thousand folded into one congratulation. Still the auspicious image, not the folded paper [4].

The released cranes, a legend. In an undated play of 近松's, 主馬判官盛久, Yoritomo goes up to the shrine on the hill and the lords release a flock with tags on their legs: 千羽の鶴に金銀の札を付け。千代の印の放鳥, a thousand cranes tagged in gold and silver, birds set free as a sign of a thousand ages [5]. In 近松半二's 奥州安達原 (1762) a peasant reads a placard: 此國の殿樣八幡太郎樣が、武運長久の爲ぢやというて、鎌倉とやらで鶴を千羽、金の札付けてお放しなされたげな, they say the lord of this province, Lord Hachiman Tarō, released a thousand cranes at Kamakura with gold tags on them, for long luck in war, and the placard is a yearly ban on taking a tagged crane [6]. The writer 大田南畝 recorded what the scholar 塙保己一 showed him: a copy of a diary said to be in Yoritomo's hand and kept by the abbot of the Tsurugaoka shrine, with an entry for the seventeenth day of the eighth month of a Kenkyū year. 南畝 asks whether this is the release of the thousand cranes, notes that 千羽鶴の事正史にみへ侍らず, the thousand cranes are not in the official history, and that a picture book children play with gives the second of the month instead; the dating to the seventeenth is 塙's [7]. A manuscript excerpt notebook of 1880 to 1884 copies the entry [8]. It is a legend of live cranes, and nothing read connects it to the paper ones.

1797, 秘傳千羽鶴折形, the oldest surviving book of recreational origami. Forty-nine ways to cut and fold a flock of cranes from a single sheet, each design named and given a comic verse. Its preface opens on the crane's thousand years in Chinese lore and says that 古に紙の鶴を折れる法あり, of old there was a way of folding cranes from paper, an omen of long life; it is signed 玉しく庭の下つかへ 青女房露菊 [9]. One design is called 比翼, wing to wing, with the verse 天にあらばひよくのちぎりたのしまん　かすミの蒲團　雲どりの夜着, in heaven we would enjoy the pledge of wing-to-wing birds, a quilt of mist, bedclothes of cloud [10]. The signature is read as a mask of the Kyoto writer 秋里籬島, and the preface names 魯縞庵 of Ise as the folder [11]; he was the priest 義道一円 of a temple in Kuwana, and the book was forgotten until the origami master 吉澤章 republished it in 1957 [12]. In this book 千羽鶴 means the connected cranes, a third sense. The 世界大百科 says the preface treats folded cranes as already common knowledge [1].

1828, a senryū in the 柳多留. 千羽鶴いたちごっこのように折り, folding a thousand cranes like a game of itachi-gokko, the children's hand-over-hand game that never ends. The first record of people folding a thousand paper cranes, and it is a joke about how long it takes [1].

1882, 吉原新繁昌記, a sketch of the Yoshiwara. In the courtesans' idle hour before the evening meal, one reads a novel, one leans on a pillar, one writes a letter: 或ハ千羽鶴を疊む者あり, one folds a thousand cranes [13].

1893, 和漢雅俗いろは辞典, a dictionary. The first headword found: せんばづる（名）千羽鶴（夏日家の天井に懸け置きて蠅の糞を除る紙にて折りたる鶴をいふ）, folded paper cranes hung from the ceiling in summer to keep off fly-specks [14]. The revised edition of 1913 keeps it [15].

1898, 落合直文, ことばの泉, a dictionary. せんば-づる 千羽鶴。紙を折りて、數多つらなりたる鶴の形をつくりたるもの, paper folded into the shapes of many cranes strung together: the folded string and only that [16].

By 1909, a haiku of a vow. In a directory of living haikai poets, a Yokohama civil servant writing as 薫風: 心願の千羽鶴折る夜長かな, the long autumn night: folding a thousand cranes for a heart's prayer [17].

1916, 小川未明, 千羽鶴, a children's story. An old woman notices the village shrine has gone lonely and neglected, folds cranes in red, blue and yellow paper, strings them, and hangs them on the lattice of the shrine's door: 千羽鶴を造って、お宮へ捧げたら … それを糸でつないで、お宮の拝殿の扉の格子につるしました. That night a white crane comes to her window as the god's messenger. The votive string as a plain village act, told for children [18].

1917, 泉鏡花, 時雨の姿, in 弥生帖. A girl named Yuki prays to Kishimojin, and the hall is hung with the offerings of others before her [19]:

「鬼子母神樣、雪がお願ひに參りました、何うぞ、母さんの病氣の治りますやうに。」金紙銀紙千代紙の折鶴、千羽鶴。

"Kishimojin, Yuki has come to ask you: please, let my mother's illness be cured." Folded cranes of gold paper, silver paper, chiyogami: a thousand cranes.

The prayer for a sick parent, in a hall hung with strings of cranes, thirty-eight years before Sadako.

1920 to 1933, the small dictionaries and a folklorist. Offered at shrines: 紙を折つて鶴の形を作り、幾百千羽を糸につなぎたるもの、神社などに奉納す [20]. Offered at the Awashima and Kishimojin shrines for a girl's progress in her accomplishments: 折鶴を絲に通して、數多く連ねたるもの。千匹猿の如く、淡島・鬼子母神などにささげて、女兒の技藝の上達を祈る, like the strings of a thousand cloth monkeys; the same dictionary gives the pattern as its second sense and quotes the 1719 play for it [21]. And in a run of Edo things: 千羽鶴。是は紙で折つて神社佛閣へ納めるのです, these are folded from paper and offered at shrines and temples [22].

1934, 小笠原長生, 晩年の東郷元帥, a memoir of Admiral Tōgō. In a round-table of the nurses who attended him, the nurse 福岡 tells it. A gift of a pine bonsai had come; the old admiral, ill in his own room, had her cut paper small and fold cranes, and when she forgot the fold, showed her himself: 小い鶴を澤山折りましたら、その松に飛ばせよ、とおつしやるのです。『これは、目出度い、目出度い、松に千羽鶴が飛んだ。』, when I had folded many small cranes he said, let them fly in that pine. "How auspicious, how auspicious, a thousand cranes have flown into the pine." Then he had the pine carried to his ailing wife's pillow. The book prints the reading ちばづる, chibazuru, beside the word; the same account is retold in a 1940 book on the admiral [23].

1939, 竹村猛児, 物言はぬ聴診器, a doctor's essays. 千羽鶴 折紙で鶴を千羽折つて神佛に捧げれば、念願が叶ふといふ云ひ來たりがある, there is a saying that if you fold a thousand paper cranes and offer them to the gods and buddhas, your prayer will be granted, and the next sentence begins to qualify it (snippet view, National Diet Library) [24].

1941, 高村光太郎, 智恵子抄. In the piece 智恵子の切抜繪 the poet writes that he had heard simple handwork was good for the mentally ill, and half a year after his wife entered the hospital he brought her chiyogami: 智恵子は大へんよろこんで其で千羽鶴を折つた。訪問するたびに部屋の天井から下つてゐる鶴の折紙がふえて美しかつた, Chieko was delighted and folded a thousand cranes with it. Each time I visited, the folded cranes hanging from the ceiling of her room had grown, and it was beautiful [25]. An essay he collected in 1943, written a year after her breakdown, imagines her: 今ごろは腦病院の一室で多分千羽鶴を折つてゐるだらう, by now she is probably folding a thousand cranes in a room of the hospital [26].

1941, a teachers' manual. 千羽鶴は古來一の民間信仰から神社、佛閣等に献納するものであるが, the thousand cranes are offered at shrines and temples from an old folk belief: the manual recommends a class make one together and offer it at a shrine for the long luck in war of classmates' fathers, or at a family temple for a child who has died; for a sick classmate it recommends a different paper gift, the 藥玉 [27].

1949 to 1951, Kawabata Yasunari's novel. The pattern sense of 1719 persists into the twentieth century: the cranes of Kawabata's serial novel are the pattern on a wrapping cloth (Seidensticker's kerchief), carried by a young woman on her way to a tea ceremony [28].

1955, 佐々木禎子, Hiroshima. Born 7 January 1943, she was two when the bomb fell; the biographical dictionaries place her 1.5 km from the hypocenter and Japanese Wikipedia 1.6 km [29][30]. One dictionary dates the onset of leukemia to the end of her sixth-grade year and another the diagnosis to 1954; Japanese Wikipedia has the diagnosis told on 18 February 1955 and her admission to the Red Cross hospital on 21 February [29][30]. The biographical dictionary gives the story in one line: 「鶴を千羽折ると願いがかなう」と言う級友の言葉により鶴を折り続けたがよくならず, on a classmate's word that if you fold a thousand cranes your wish comes true, she went on folding cranes, but did not get better [29]. Japanese Wikipedia dates the folding from August 1955, when a string of cranes sent by high-school students in Nagoya reached the ward, says she passed a thousand by late August and went on, and gives the Peace Memorial Museum's count as over 1,300 [30]. She died on 25 October 1955, at twelve. Her classmates' campaign built the 原爆の子の像, the Children's Peace Monument, unveiled in the Peace Park on 5 May 1958; the bell inside it carries the two words 千羽鶴 in the hand of the physicist Yukawa Hideki [30].

1956, the number 644. Ten months after her death a weekly reports that she folded cranes in her bed with medicine wrappers, 千羽ヅルの願いも空しく六百四十四羽目が最後になって, the wish of the thousand cranes was in vain, and the six hundred and forty-fourth was the last (snippet view, National Diet Library) [31]. The number recurs in Japanese magazines of 1956 and 1958, among them a notice of an NHK choral drama, 千羽鶴, with 六百四十四羽の魂歌 (snippet view) [32]. A 1978 article reports 964 in one source and 643 in another, and quotes Mr. Toyoda, vice-principal (教頭) of the junior high school she attended: a book has her believing the cranes would cure her and four short of a thousand, 事実は千三百あまり折った, in fact she folded some thirteen hundred (snippet view) [33].

What is not a source. The legend of a thousand live cranes released with gold tags at Kamakura, in two plays and a writer's notebook [5][6][7][8], is a story about released birds, not about folded paper. The 1797 book is often named as the origin of the thousand-crane custom [9]; it is the oldest book about folding cranes, and its title uses the word for cranes joined from one sheet, a different thing from a string. The often-repeated line that folding a thousand cranes grants a wish is in print as a saying in 1939 [24], a haiku folds them for a vow by 1909 [17], and the dictionaries record the votive practice; it reaches the Sadako story as a classmate's word [29].

The word in English

1887, Wertheimber, The Muramasa Blade. A plate titled Yoritomo liberating a thousand cranes in honor of his victories: the legend reaches English first [34].

1894, the Burlington Fine Arts Club catalogue of Japanese lacquer and metalwork. The glossary: Semba-zuru. A thousand cranes, beside Sembiki-zaru. A thousand monkeys, as a decorative subject [35].

1908, Henri L. Joly, Legend in Japanese Art. Among the numerical subjects of art: The Thousand cranes (Semba Tsuru) [36].

1958, Edward Seidensticker's translation, Thousand Cranes. The English title of Kawabata's novel, whose cranes are a textile pattern: the thousand-crane pattern in white on a pink crepe background [28]. The capitalized phrase in the Google Books corpus rises from the 1950s and peaks in 1987, nineteen years after the Nobel prize [37].

1958, No More Hirosimas, the bulletin of the Japan Council against A & H-Bombs, June–July. Under Statue of Atom Bombed Girl: While hospitalized at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital, she continued to fold paper work cranes with medicine folding paper. She folded 644 paper cranes before she died. The bulletin names her Teiko Sasaki. The earliest known English telling, and the earliest known 644 in English [38].

1961, Robert Jungk, Children of the Ashes, Harcourt, Brace & World, New York. The English of a journalist's German account of Hiroshima's rebuilding, 1959:

There is a Japanese belief that a sick person who, even on his deathbed, can fold a thousand paper cranes will be out of danger. As Sadako's leukaemia grew worse she bravely set about this task, and soon above her hospital bed there arose a web of strings on which the little cranes fluttered. But when the sick girl had just made her six hundredth little paper creation, her strength began to ebb away, and with No. 644 she was forced to give up.

The earliest known book in English to tell it [39].

1962, Karl Bruckner, The Day of the Bomb, Van Nostrand. The English of the Austrian writer's children's novel Sadako will leben (1961), which German Wikipedia says has been used in schools worldwide for peace education; in its telling she dies after the 990th crane [40].

1977, Eleanor Coerr, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Putnam, New York. The children's novel that made the story a school text in English: Sadako folds 644 — Six hundred and forty-four… — and the book closes Her classmates folded 356 cranes so that 1,000 were buried with Sadako [41]. The 644 had been in the Japanese press since 1956 [31]; her family, through her elder brother, says she passed a thousand and went on, and the Japanese article on her says the smaller number was spread to sharpen the tragedy [30].

The ngram. Paper cranes is flat in English until the 1950s and rises through the 1960s and 1980s to its peak in 2019; thousand paper cranes is first real in the 1960s; origami crane is a word of the 1980s; senbazuru first appears in 1964 and is visible only after 2000; Sadako rises from the 1950s and peaks in 2016 [37].

Today. JMdict: (string of) many (traditionally 1000) paper cranes [2]. The house title 1000 Cranes is the house's own, the literal count in figures. A rendering must keep the number and the bird; the paper may be left to the reader, and the English phrase that carries the tradition is a thousand paper cranes. The 世界大百科 sets the sickroom string in a family of Japanese customs where many small acts by many hands stand against one person's danger, with the thousand stitches of 千人針 and the hundred shrine visits of 百度参り, and like theirs the thousand here is read as many rather than counted [1].

A reading

The word is older than its story and larger than it. For its first century in print it was a pattern, cranes on a bride's sleeve with the crane's thousand years dyed into the green, and a legend of cranes set free with gold on their legs. The folded string arrives in the 1820s as a joke about patience, and by the 1920s it was several homely things at once: a courtesan's pastime, a summer charm against flies, a girls' offering to Awashima and Kishimojin, a string hung in the hall where a daughter prayed for a sick mother. A poet folded one for a vow by 1909, and a book of 1939 states the wish as a saying. A nurse folded them at an ailing admiral's word, in a memoir of 1934, and a poet wrote in 1941 of his wife folding them in a mental hospital, so cranes were folded in sickrooms before the war.

What 1955 changed was not the custom but its weight: one child's thousand against a death the whole world had a hand in, and the word 千羽鶴 cast on a bell under her statue in a physicist's calligraphy. That is why the same three characters can hang in a sickroom, at a wedding, and at a peace park without contradiction. The number 644 was in the Japanese press within a year of her death and in the peace movement's English a year after that; it was never her family's.

Notes

The wapuro spelling senbadzuru is a typing convention; Modified Hepburn writes senbazuru.

The Japanese Wikipedia article dates the modern string to at least 1916, from Ogawa Mimei's story; the 1893 headword, the 1882 sketch and the 1828 senryū are earlier.

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Authors

Tim Jackowski (Systems Architect, Takase Studios, LLC) · 典 Ten (Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1, Takase Studios, LLC)

AI written · Ten wrote the history. Tim Jackowski commissioned it and answers for it.

Checked · Claude Sonnet (Anthropic), 2026-09-15, citations — every claim tested at its address; most resolve; several resolve but differ — an inserted particle in one legend's quote, an inserted quotation mark in another, a year gap restated correctly against the Nobel Prize date, and a reading of the page's own composition line; one does not resolve — the page's kanji-composition line already reads as the account says it should, contradicting its own claim; the rest not openable, some resolved from a cache held here; every differing row re-opened by hand at the page image and corrected in the body

Cite as: Tim Jackowski and Ten, "Philology of 千羽鶴 (senbazuru)," Takase Studios, 2026, https://takase.com/library/philology/senbazuru.