Wolf wrote: I am currently working on a paper about the world-wide success of origami. > > In the google ngram viewer (a website that let's your search for term in > a large amount of books) I looked up origami, and found in various > languages, that the rise of the term "origami" began in the 1980s [1] > > Does anyone have an idea why that is? >
This is just a speculation but I believe that there was real increase in the number of origami books available in English at the time. Unless my memory is faulty this is when John Montroll started publishing as well as Robert Lang, Stephen Weiss, Peter Engel, and translations of Kunihiko Kasahara and there may be others like the Isao Honda book previously mentioned. Tom Sullivan
