Traditional shoji screens consist of panels of rice paper framed in a wooden grid.
Shoji wall panels.
Shoji is a type of translucent screen traditionally used for dividing walls in japanese housing.
A shōji is a door window or room divider used in traditional japanese architecture consisting of translucent sheets on a lattice frame.
A deep overhanging roof covered the veranda and sheltered the screens.
Available in different sizes they can be used as sliding panels window treatments or standalone folding screens.
The benefit is that rice paper is lighter than wood but just as important lets light pass through.
Shoji are now integrated into a variety of home styles and serve many different functions.
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A shoji screen is different from chinese and other oriental screens in that the panels are rice paper and not wood rattan or bamboo.
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Shoji screens were originally used in japanese homes to separate the living space from the veranda or porch while allowing light through.
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Paper provides privacy like any oriental screen but also diffuses light throughout the room.
Shōji are very lightweight so they are easily slid aside or taken off their tracks and stored in a closet opening the room to other rooms or the outside.
Our clients have used shoji screens as sliding door and window coverings closet and entertainment center doors floor to ceiling room dividers as a moveable wall smaller pass through window screens and light fixtures.
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.
A set of sliding wooden doors closed off the veranda from the outside and provided security at night.
Where light transmission is not needed the similar but opaque fusuma is used.