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2. Hand fan - Wikipedia

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   Handheld Brise fan from 1800. A handheld fan, or simply hand fan, is a broad, flat surface that is waved back-and-forth to create an airflow. Generally, purpose-made handheld fans are folding fans, which are shaped like a sector of a circle and made of a thin material (such as paper or feathers) mounted on slats which revolve around a pivot so that it can be closed when not in use.

3. Gifu fans - Wikipedia

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   Gifu fans (岐阜うちわ, Gifu Uchiwa) are hand-held fans created as a special product of the city of Gifu in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. They have been labeled as one of Gifu's traditional crafts and have a history dating back to the Muromachi period. [1] The fans were first created as omiyage for tourists and visitors to Cormorant Fishing on ...

4. European hand fans in the 18th century - Wikipedia

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   Hand fans first arrived in Europe in the 15th century from Asia and became popular in the 16th century. Several fan styles were common and a plethora of materials were used to create them. Subject matter varied greatly, from Biblical scenes to landscapes. Hand fans serve as a cooling mechanism, social instrument, and fashion accessory.

5. Hanfu accessories - Wikipedia

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   Hanfu accessories (Chinese : 汉服配饰; pinyin : hànfú pèishì; lit. 'hanfu accessories') refers to the various form of fashion accessories and self-adornments used and worn with hanfu throughout Chinese history. Hanfu consists of many forms of miscellaneous accessories, such as jewellry, yaopei (lit. 'waist ornaments'), ribbons, shawls ...

6. Tuanshan - Wikipedia

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   Tuanshan (Chinese: 團扇; pinyin: tuánshàn; lit. 'circular fan'), also called gongshan (lit. 'palace fan'), [1] bian mian (pien mien), [2]: 203, 206 fan of reunion, are typically silk rigid hand fan which originated in China; they are typically circular or oval in shape. [3][4]: 5 [2]: 206 Up to the Song dynasty, the tuanshan appears to have ...

7. Japanese war fan - Wikipedia

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   Japanese war fan. Antique Japanese (samurai) Edo period gunsen war fan, made of iron, bamboo and lacquer depicting the sun (1800–1850) on display at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, California. The Japanese war fan, or tessen (Japanese: 鉄扇,てっせん, romanized: tessen, lit. '"iron fan"'), is a Japanese hand fan used as a weapon ...