A sensu, a folding fan of paper on a frame of bamboo or wood, is light and small and can be folded into a bag. Its forerunner, the hiōgi, was made of thin plates of hinoki cypress. The oldest surviving hiōgi is said to carry a date of 877.
A chōchin, paper lantern, is made of bamboo strips and washi paper and is made to fold. According to tradition, the prototype of today’s folding lantern appeared in the Tenbun era, around 1532 to 1555.