What is a folding fan?

Folding fan is a hand cooling device that conveniently folds into a thin and compact mold. While the folding fan can be large when it is open, it is never slightly wider than one folding segment when it was closed. Folding fans are primarily used for cooling, but are also used in dance, as weapons and as decoration. Once they were in Japan in Japan as a rank brand, folding fans tolerated as objects of beauty and practical use in many countries. Japanese fans were originally made of Japanese cypresses held together with fiber. Later, they developed into thin slats of solid and strong materials such as bamboo, covered with fabric or paper. Modern Japanese fans folding are often produced by a machine with printed patterns, but originally all designs were painted manually on handmade paper. Japonian to China and then to Europe. In Europe, a folding fan has taken a radically diverse way when it evolved in design. FansEven folding had much closer sticks and often did not use flexible material such as paper. They also used European designs on surfaces, including religious scenes. While the basic structure of a European fans folding fans originates in Japan, it shares relatively few functions with its Asian ancestors.

in Japan, folding fans had many uses over the ages. One of the more unique uses was a war fan that was explicitly used in combat situations. These fans were made of iron and were developed as a hidden weapon that got into situations where other weapons were not allowed. It is an iron folding fan is the subject of Many Samurai Legends. In Japanese, this weapon is called tessen and the art of fighting these fans is called tessenjutsu .

Japanese fans folding are often visible at festivals and sell in the most comfortableshops in Japan. More expensive fans can be found throughout Japan in antique shops and flea markets. One particularly good market where you can buy fans of folding in Japan is next to the temple Sensii in Tokyo. With all the history and culture built into this traditional facility, these fans have become great souvenirs.