Japanese and their arts

The japanese are famous for a variety of reasons. Their rich and varied history of thousands of years, their cuisine, their art, their martial culture, their (more contemporary) peace culture, their contemporary arts and tradition, their dedication to whatever field they take interest in, modern technological achievement and inventions, quality control, movies, music, the natural scenery, and so on and on and on. The list could probably go for a thousand words and still just be the beginning.

This is  little different. The japanese, not satisfied with their multitude of achievements in every conceivable field and subsector imaginable are now clearing out the 'minor innovations most likely to be featured in niche youtube videos' too. Take the youtube channels that build sharp knives out of strangest things possible. Sharp knives made out of dried milk! From wood! From... Aluminum foil! Etcetera etcetera. One such achievement is their invention of the fastest way on the internet to fold T-shirt. It takes about 5 seconds for an experienced person, a little more for persons like me. Still the fastest, and mind you folding t-shirts is a really slow and tedious process otherwise.

The way you do it is, divide the shirt into two halves, the middle part being point A, the top point B, and bottom part point C. Pinch part A, and pinch part B, turn over part B to part C running over part A. Then pull over part A from under parts B and C . Turn the shirt around, tuck the sides, and you're done. It's like magic!

I guess.. that comes from hundreds of years (possibly thousands I'm too lazy to google) exploration in the art of origami which is the japanese art of folding paper into various shapes without using glue or any other tools. If you took t-shirt to be a reallly soft kind of paper then I guess it all makes sense. I wonder if they have videos for folding t-shirts into swans and boats and airplanes. Wouldn't be surprised if they do, they're reallly into something they're into and see to the end of it. Such passionate culture.