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Tessen

Objects · Rituals

A named iron war-fan of Japanese martial dress. Not a generic helmet, not a gunbai dump, and not a folding souvenir.

  • Tessen is historically related to Iron.

    Chamberlain’s Fans / war notes seat the tessen as an iron-ribbed war fan carried by samurai — iron-fan speech, not a paper sensu alone.

    from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)

    historically related to · sourced · documented

sources

  • Things Japanese · Basil Hall Chamberlain

    Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese (5th ed. 1905).