A crane lives for a thousand years, a turtle lives for ten thousand years. (This phrase comes from a Chinese legend found in the "Shuolin Xun" chapter of the Huainanzi, which says that cranes and turtles live for a thousand and ten thousand years.) The phrase celebrates long life and good fortune.

In Japan, Senbazuru (a thousand paper cranes) is a traditional design or painting of many cranes, or 1,000 origami cranes, bound together with thread. The presence of a thousand cranes (a large number of them), which are considered auspicious birds, represents an even greater sign of good fortune. Senbazuru are folded and given as blessings, as prayers for happiness, to comfort people affected by disasters, as prayers for recovery from illness, and as get-well gifts.

Senbazuru has also become a symbol of peace because Sadako Sasaki, who was exposed to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and died of radiation sickness, folded paper cranes as a prayer for her own survival.

May there be no conflict and the world be at peace.

That is the wish we have put into this design.