The art of hand fan making in India and Japan is a tale of two cultures. While Indian fans are colorful and heavily decorated ...

Through origami engineering, Hagiwara is also on the verge of reviving an ancient Japanese symbol of nobility: the hand-painted folding fan. To paint a fan, ancient Japanese artists had to figure ...

putting a pandemic twist on the fans that are ubiquitous during summer in Japan. The mask slips into a plastic pocket on the warped fan. That way, the mask won't come into contact with surfaces so ...

Traditional hand-held fans are considered much more ... taken by the Kyoto Sensu Uchiwa Shoko Kyodo Kumiai (Kyoto folding and round fan commercial and industrial cooperative association).