Osamu Arai was born in 1948 in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. He is an artist of Edo Folding Fan, known for Arai-Bunsendo in Asakusa. As a folding-fan-artist he makes many folding-fans to be used on Kabuki and Japanese-Tradition Dance, „舞踊“. In the Kabuki-, Dance- and Rakugo-Worlds he has many lovers.