Paper boat, paper bird

This wonderful tale transports Mina to Kyoto, Japan, an entirely new and different cultural landscape, where she encounters the magic of origami and an older magic, too. She accepts an origami paper boat from a woman on the bus. ´Ko-ni-chi-wa,´ says the woman, ´Take it.´ And then, ´Float it.´ Mina watches as the woman´s fingers fold another elaborate paper form: creased, tugged and teased into the shape of a paper bird.