The story
- Japanese · borrowed from千代紙“gaily colored paper”
- English todaychiyogami
Borrowed from Japanese 千代紙 (ちよがみ, chiyogami, “gaily colored paper”, literally “paper of a thousand worlds”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
chiyogami
Today it means: The repeating pattern found in many origami papers, originally applied with wood blocks, but now mainly using silkscreen techniques. Full definition →
Japanese 千代紙