江戸時代、徳川五代将軍 綱吉の頃、水防と扇子作りのために安曇川沿いに竹が植えられ、農閑期の副業として扇骨業が盛んになりました。
扇骨が京へ行けば京扇子となり、江戸へ行けば江戸扇子となり、全国に広まっていきました。
今では全国の約９割の扇骨が、ここ安曇川で生産されています。


During the Edo period, around the time of Tsunayoshi, the fifth shogun of the Tokugawa clan, bamboo was planted along the Ado River for flood control and fan making, and the fan-bone industry became popular as a side job during the off-season.
If the fan goes to Kyoto, it becomes a Kyo fan, and if it goes to Edo, it becomes an Edo fan, and it has spread all over the country.
Today, about 90% of fans nationwide are produced here in the Ado River.