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Language: Japanese
Language: Japanese
Folding fan

Four folding fans (jap. sensu). Bamboo sticks, the paper leaf printed/painted printed/painted on paper. At the lower end with an eyelet through which a string was threaded. was threaded through. A fan with silver leaf. A fan with a depiction of the large torii of the Itsukushima Shrine of Miyajima in the waves of the sea. A fan with goldfish stylised waves. Fans were used for cooling, for lighting fires and as clothing props, ceremonial utensil, for dancing and for signalling.

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Object type
fans (costume accessories)
Dimensions
23 x 225 x 54 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 43124
Other number(s)
RJM 1949/08

Provenance and sources

when
between 1880-1920
where
Japan
Asia -> East Asia -> Japan

when
1934-1938
who
Dirksen, Herbert von - Recipients

when
1950-06-02
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