A Sakamoto Ryoma paper and bamboo folding fan PLUS mini folding fan.  (sensu = folding fan). Popular for Sengoku Busho (Samurai Festival)
Sakamoto Ryoma is one of Japan's best-loved historical figures. Sakamoto Ryoma was born in 1835 in Tosa, (modern-day Kochi Prefecture). He was a low ranking samurai who is credited with engineering a bloodless revolution that transformed the feudal Japan of the Tokugawa Shogunate into a unified nation bent on modernizing itself and catching up with the West.
Like many of Japan's heroes, he died violently, before he could see his dreams realized. He longed to see Japan and its people freed from the stultifying and, as he saw it, corrupt rule of the Bakufu, and set on the path of modernizing its economy and strengthening its military in order to avoid colonization by the Western powers. His impact was huge in size, scope and endurance, and achieved in a surprisingly short span of time. He was a figure who appeared at a critical juncture in history and had a more profound effect on events than anyone one could have predicted
 
Condition: 
Excellent - vintage but unused
 
Length of standard sized fan 17cm
 
 
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