Japanese umbrella making

Fans, folding fans, lanterns, etc. Our Japanese have been making these functional and beautiful things by Japanese paper and bamboo crafts. 

The Japanese umbrella has made from combines fine bamboo bones and axes, applied a Persimmon juice or Tung oil and put on washi paper which for waterproofed. 

Although Karakasa umbrella is generally a name for being from China, which was improved by Japanese craftsmen. Each process that makes them has accumulated techniques. Make a frame, put a Japanese paper, in the process of finishing, each worked by specialized craftsmen, they have been make up a Japanese umbrella. The Wagasa umbrella craftsmen who are becoming fewer now, the technology which inherited, they continue making a beautiful handmade umbrella.