芭ば蕉しょう扇せん

noun

palm-leaf fan

A fan made from a palm leaf, especially the leaf of the Japanese banana plant (芭蕉). Often associated with the mythical fan used by Princess Iron Fan in Journey to the West.

• 芭ば蕉しょう扇せんは西さい遊ゆう記きに登とう場じょうする宝ほう物もつの一ひとつだ。

  The palm-leaf fan is one of the treasures that appear in Journey to the West.

• 夏なつ祭まつりで芭ば蕉しょう扇せんをあおいで涼すずんだ。

  I cooled off by waving a palm-leaf fan at the summer festival.