shoji screens
Translucent sliding panels
Shoji screens are traditional Japanese room dividers or sliding doors made of translucent paper stretched over a wooden lattice frame.
They filter light softly while providing privacy and flexible partitioning of interior spaces.
The term appears in Western design contexts for similar lightweight screens: We installed shoji screens to separate the living area from the home office.
- tatami matsWoven straw floor panels
- room dividerFurniture separating interior spaces
- tea ceremonyRitualized beverage preparation
- rice paperThin edible Asian wrapper
- wabi-sabiAesthetic valuing transience, incompleteness
cedar wood · latticework · wood frame · sliding door · Japanese architecture · clean lines · craftsmanship · joinery · traditional crafts · pine wood · bamboo · natural materials · window covering · tearoom · glass panels · modularity · partition wall · minimalism
- East AsiaChina, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Korea
- Japanese culturesamurai, kabuki, sumo, origami, tea ceremony
- Asian decorbamboo furniture, bonsai, Chinese lanterns, Japanese lanterns, paper lanterns
- Edo Japanshogun, samurai, shogunate, daimyo, Tokugawa
- Asian craftsbamboo weaving, basketry, cloisonne, incense burner, silk embroidery
- Japanese Architecturestorehouse, tatami, tatami room, tatami rooms, tea house
shoji screensbrick walls
Structures of stacked blocks
concrete walls · stone walls · drywall · plaster walls · masonry
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