The girei origami is a part of a warrior family's manners and it would appear that it was developed mainly by the Ogasawara clan, the Ise clan and the Imagawa clan in the days of Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA because "Tsutsumi no ki (record on wrapping)" written by Sadatake ISE in 1764 said that 'the folded paper models on the right were used during the time of the Kyoto shogun.'
儀礼折り紙は武家の礼法に含まれるもので、1764年に伊勢貞丈が著した『包之記』に「右の折形どもは、京都将軍の御代に用いられし折形也」という記述があるから、足利義満の時代、小笠原氏・伊勢氏・今川氏を中心に整えられたと考えられる。