摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide training chopsticks in which shape is improved to facilitate understanding positions and a moving way of respective fingers holding the chopsticks.SOLUTION: To learn a correct way how to hold and move chopsticks, an upper chopstick 1 has a proximal portion (a portion held by fingers) with a triangle cross section to facilitate understanding holding positions of a thumb, a forefinger, and a middle finger and a way how to move the fingers, and a lower chopstick 4 has a proximal portion (a portion held by fingers) with a flat elliptic cross section 5 to facilitate understanding feeling of holding the chopstick between the thumb and a base of the forefinger, and also the lower chopstick has a recessed portion with which a terminal joint of the medicine finger is to be in contact to facilitate understanding a position of the medicine finger.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3 |