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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 or for signalling. Several types of war fans were used by the samurai class of feudal Japan and each had a different look and purpose.[1]
^Mol, Serge (2003). Classical Weaponry of Japan: Special Weapons and Tactics of the Martial Arts. Kodansha International. pp. 81–87. ISBN 978-4-7700-2941-6.
device for winnowing grain Japanesewarfan, an object used in Japanese feudal warfare, also used in martial arts Korean fighting fan, an object used in Korean...
of Japan committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity across various Asian-Pacific nations, notably during the Second Sino-Japanese and...
gunbai (軍配, short for 軍配団扇 gunbai-uchiwa) is a type of signal baton and Japanesewarfan. Once held by military leaders (such as daimyō) and priests in the...
Tessenjutsu (Japanese: 鉄扇術, lit. 'iron fan technique') is the martial art of the Japanesewarfan (tessen). It is based on the use of the solid iron fan or the...
on Japan's outlook and led to Japanese colonialism and rampant imperialism (c. 1895 - 1945) until Japan's defeat in World War II. The 1947 Japanese Constitution...
The Korean warfan (mubuchae; Hangul: 무부채) was a Korean martial arts weapon that originated in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. Swords and similar weapons...
Anime (Japanese: アニメ, IPA: [aꜜɲime] ) is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, anime refers...
it is associated with Japanesewar crimes, the Axis of World War II, and Japanese militarism and imperialism. The flag of Japan and the symbolism of the...
the Abe clan in the Zenkunen War (Former Nine Years' War) and the Kiyohara clan in the Gosannen War (Later Three Years' War). Subsequently, he became something...
bandols, and Japanese-South Korean idols. An idol is a type of entertainer whose image is manufactured to cultivate a dedicated consumer fan following....
other Japanese animation fans across the country and because the distribution of shows across the United States was different based on location, fans began...
conventions to keep their fan communities active. In a Japanese nationwide survey held in 2018 by Dentsu, 64.3% of Japanese individuals among the 20-29...
harakiri (腹切り, lit. 'abdomen/belly cutting', a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritualistic suicide by disembowelment. It was originally...
During the Sino-JapaneseWar, Fan Changjiang, Hu Yuzhi and other journalists founded the International News Association at Changsha in 1936. Fan was the president...
the Japanese "lost decades". In Japanese history, the Jōmon period (縄文時代, Jōmon jidai) is the time between c. 14,000 and 300 BCE, during which Japan was...
locations such as Taiyuan War Criminals Management Centre, to bring the total number of Japanese prisoners to 982. The Japanese prisoners can be divided...
American Civil War was not about states' rights". Quartz. Retrieved June 12, 2021. Foner, Eric (January 23, 2015). "When the South Wasn't a Fan of States'...
cultures of Northeast Asia] (in Japanese). Hokkaido University Press. p. 428. ISBN 9784832967342. 元寇 (in Japanese). Japan Knowledge. Archived from the original...
Jiayang Fan (Chinese: 樊嘉扬; pinyin: Fán Jiāyáng; born 4 August 1984) is a Chinese-American journalist. She was born in Chongqing and immigrated to the United...
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