Illustration: A child sits on the wooden threshold of a family home during a hot summer afternoon, fanning a sleepy grandfather with a broad, round, nonfolding fan. The fan is turned enough to reveal its thin bamboo ribs spreading from a short handle beneath a plain paper surface.

うちわ

uchiwa

handheld Japanese fan

Example sentences

ちなみに、この部屋へやには冷房設備れいぼうせつびなんて物ものは何なにも無ない。あるのはうちわだけ。
Incidentally, this room doesn’t have anything like an air conditioner. All it has is a hand-held paper fan.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
うちわを持もって踊おどる。
The dancers dance with Uchiwa fans.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
撒まかれるうちわは寺てらの手てづくりである。
The fans are hand-made in the temple.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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