“Fans of Japan.” Plates from Charlotte Maria Birch Salwey’s 1894 work of the same name which was published in London by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Ltd. Images are from the Internet Archive but I found out about them in an auction listing on Lot Search.

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WATER FAN, Made of Varnished Paper. Frontispiece. Plate 1. Page 8 from Charlotte Maria Birch Salwey’s Fans of Japan. 1894. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Ltd, London publishers. Collections of the Smithsonian Archives and Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/fansjapan00salw/page/I/mode/1up
KOREAN FAN. Plate II. Page 11 from Charlotte Maria Birch Salwey’s Fans of Japan. 1894. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Ltd, London publishers. Collections of the Smithsonian Archives and Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/fansjapan00salw/page/II/mode/1up
A LADY’S SILK AND BAMBOO FAN. Frame inlaid with various materials. Plate III. Page 71 from Charlotte Maria Birch Salwey’s Fans of Japan. 1894. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Ltd, London publishers. Collections of the Smithsonian Archives and Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/fansjapan00salw/page/III/mode/1up
Figure 12. Page 94 from Charlotte Maria Birch Salwey’s Fans of Japan. 1894. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Ltd, London publishers. Collections of the Smithsonian Archives and Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/fansjapan00salw/page/52/mode/1up
Figure a. FAN OF H. M. HARUKO, EMPRESS OF JAPAN; Figure b. FAN USED AT CHAN-NO-YU, OR THE TEA CEREMONY; Figure c. CAMP FAN. Figure d. FAN OF A DANCING GIRL. Plate V, Page 107 from Charlotte Maria Birch Salwey’s Fans of Japan. 1894. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Ltd, London publishers. Collections of the Smithsonian Archives and Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/fansjapan00salw/page/V/mode/1up
HAND-PAINTED FAN, Made of Hi Wood. Plate VII, Page 149 from Charlotte Maria Birch Salwey’s Fans of Japan. 1894. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Ltd, London publishers. Collections of the Smithsonian Archives and Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/fansjapan00salw/page/VII/mode/1up
HACHIMAN TARO’S FAN, Designed from description given in the Nihon Shakwai.  Plate VIII. Page 161 from Charlotte Maria Birch Salwey’s Fans of Japan. 1894. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Ltd, London publishers. Collections of the Smithsonian Archives and Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/fansjapan00salw/page/VIII/mode/1up
Figure a. COURT LADY’S FAN; Figure b. BATTLE FAN; Figure c. COURTIER’S FAN; Figure d. OUTSIDE FRAME OF COURTIER’S FAN; Figure e. NŌ DRAMA FAN. Plate X. Page 191 from Charlotte Maria Birch Salwey’s Fans of Japan. 1894. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Ltd, London publishers. Collections of the Smithsonian Archives and Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/fansjapan00salw/page/X/mode/1up

In 1894 Japan occupied Seoul in what is now South Korea but was then Korea this being decades before it was divided into North Korea and South Korea. That is why a Korean fan is part of the book these are taken from. Also the author was writing in England.

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