Oil-paper umbrella facts for kids

Oil-paper umbrella

The oil-paper umbrella (Chinese: 油紙傘) is a type of paper umbrella from China. It has spread to Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Burma, Thailand and Laos. People in these countries have developed the oil-paper umbrella with different features.

In China and Japan, in addition to use as providing shade, the oil-paper umbrella is used at weddings. In Ryukyu, it is also used at funerals.

Images for kids

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  Oil-paper umbrella in the Legend of the White Snake

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  Oil-paper umbrella from Fuzhou

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  Terracotta Army

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  Umbrella making as a home industry

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  The underside of a Japanese oil-paper umbrella

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  Oil-paper umbrella used in weddings in Ryūkyū

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  Kyō wagasa, a traditional umbrella of Kyoto, Japan.

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  Wagasa at a wedding ceremony

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  Umbrella stand at the Sunday market, Chiangmai

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  Phangki, son of Nāga under an oil-paper umbrella

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  Hiroshige, The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, Rain Shower at Shōno

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  Hyakunin Isshu by Kuniyoshi. Jakuren and a companion strolling in a grove of yew trees

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  Reproduction of a hand coloured photograph of a Sinhalese man in Mumbai, 1897

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  From Burmah a watercolor by Rao Bahadur M. V. Dhurandhar depicting a Burmese woman from Myanmar

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  Oil paper umbrella art in southern China

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  Paper parasol artisan in southern China

See also

In Spanish: Sombrilla de papel-aceite para niños