Fighting fans are popular in many of the martial arts because of their beauty and unexpected ability to function as a very effective weapon. Martial art fans are more typically found in the Chinese martial arts like Kung Fu and Wushu but are also commonly used in some of the Japanese arts where they are known as Tessen. Martial arts assassins disguised as geisha commonly used steel fans to surprise their enemies with a deadly attack.  This is an faithful reproduction of this historic item.