Origami of the week

Lucinda is back in school - and is making new origami in her daily Japanese class. Today's new fold is a seasonally appropriate cicada.


Every August - not every 17 years, as in the Washington, D.C. area - Tokyo hums with the sounds of cicadas. The body (not the wings) of each bug flexes like a tiny bellows and gives off a noise like a very loud fax machine. In bulk, it's quite a din.