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born June 6, 1981 in Nagoya, Japan is a Japanese origami artist. He began folding paper in early childhood and was creating his own designs by the mid-1990s. His work often draws inspiration from manga, nature, and both Eastern and Western mythologies.
Kamiya has published three books. His first book is Works of Satoshi Kamiya, 1995-2003. It includes diagrams of nineteen models of intermediate through complex difficulty. Kamiya's second book, Works of Satoshi Kamiya 2, 2002-2009, released in 2012, includes 16 models and is a follow-up to his debut. Although most of these were previously published in convention books and magazines, it also includes new, previously unpublished diagrams for the famous feathered, long-tailed phoenix. In June 2019, Kamiya released a third volume of his designs. This book, Works of Satoshi Kamiya 3, contains models previously published in magazines and convention books, as well as models taught in origami classes, like his Tiger and Zero Fighter.
Among his best-known models is Ryūjin 3.5, an elaborate Chinese dragon design first completed in 2006. It has been described as “the pinnacle of the field,” featuring a curly tongue, horns, whiskers, and thousands of individually folded scales, with the folding process itself taking more than forty hours. (2025). 9780547636450, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780547636450 Other notable works include the Ancient Dragon and the Divine Dragon (Bahamut), both of which require several hundred steps and are often cited as landmarks in contemporary complex origami.
Discover magazine also noted that Kamiya had begun designing original sculptures by age 10, published his first collection in his early twenties, and developed unusually thin and strong handmade paper to support his most intricate creations.
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