Shoji usually slide but may occasionally be hung or hinged especially in more rustic styles.
Shoji wall panels.
A shōji is a door window or room divider used in traditional japanese architecture consisting of translucent sheets on a lattice frame.
Shoji is a type of translucent screen traditionally used for dividing walls in japanese housing.
Shoji screens were originally used in japanese homes to separate the living space from the veranda or porch while allowing light through.
A shoji screen is different from chinese and other oriental screens in that the panels are rice paper and not wood rattan or bamboo.
The benefit is that rice paper is lighter than wood but just as important lets light pass through.
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A set of sliding wooden doors closed off the veranda from the outside and provided security at night.
Usually crafted by placing rice paper over a wooden framework shoji screens allow light to filter through a room while still maintaining some level of privacy.
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We show you how to make these japanese shoji rice paper screen doors using simple hand tools.
Traditional shoji screens consist of panels of rice paper framed in a wooden grid.
Available in different sizes they can be used as sliding panels window treatments or standalone folding screens.
Where light transmission is not needed the similar but opaque fusuma is used.
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Paper provides privacy like any oriental screen but also diffuses light throughout the room.
A deep overhanging roof covered the veranda and sheltered the screens.
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