forum #43044 reminds me that I've been meaning to go through fans and separate them by style. Having the distinction drawn at what material a fan is made of doesn't pass the muster. Depending on art style or level of detail, it could very well be impossible to tell. Which is not to say a style of fan should be thought as being made the same way, as might be concluded from just looking at paper fan search results. A folding fan may be constructed of paper or of bamboo, plastic, bone, etc.
If this is something that's desired, there're already electric fan and harisen; I was thinking of also specifying uchiwa, war fan and folding fan. The last could be anglicized or not, since it's not exactly unique to the japanese culture.
Just out of curiosity, how do you tell the difference between various types of folded hand-held fans? I am under the impression that harisen is only one type of them.
Lokispawn said: A folding fan may be constructed of paper or of bamboo, plastic, bone, etc.
Just so you know, it's not the struts that qualify them as a paper fan, it's the webbing.
That said, yes, I do think some differentiation is needed. Off the top of my head, uchiwa are iconic of summer, matsuri, and yukata, whereas folding fans aren't.
Katajanmarja said: Just out of curiosity, how do you tell the difference between various types of folded hand-held fans? I am under the impression that harisen is only one type of them.
Harisen are basically sheets of paper folded accordion-style and held at one end. They may have a wrapped portion to grip at that end, but that's it - it's pretty much just paper. They're not meant to fan people and cool them off, they're meant to make a loud noise when slapping something with them.
The only other kind of "folded hand fan" I know of is the folding fan, which is - as said earlier - struts of some firmer material connected by a sheet of paper (glued on) and riveted together at one end, so that it can be collapsed for portability.
sgcdonmai said: Just so you know, it's not the struts that qualify them as a paper fan, it's the webbing.
The point that paper covering is similarly indistinguishable from fabric was lost in editing, though that in post #674656 certainly appears to be made entirely of paper. I can't say I'm overly familiar with the subject, however.
Another point was that harisen and electric fans do not currently implicate fan as per forum #20005. Presumably war fans of the post #675579 type would not be implicated as well so as to preserve fan for more common types.
Lokispawn said: The point that paper covering is similarly indistinguishable from fabric was lost in editing, though that in post #674656 certainly appears to be made entirely of paper.
It's a folding fan; artists often get lazy and skip drawing the in-between struts. If you look closely, you can see the struts on the ends.
Presumably war fans of the post #675579 type would not be implicated as well so as to preserve fan for more common types.
Might not be a good example; those are pretty much just oversized folding fans. In the games, they visibly have a cloth membrane.
