shoji

Examples

• All

• Assorted clothing is folded neatly in stacked plastic cubes that flank a yellowing shoji screen.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Gusts of wind that seemed to come sweeping in from the far side of the spacious Musashi plain would beat against the shoji from time to time, and the sound of the falling snow was clearly audible in the quiet room.

  Fiction book (1996)

• That night, the moonlight shone pale on the shoji of the second-floor room.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Earlham, a small Quaker college in Richmond, had a program in Japanese studies and a tatami room in its library that featured doors of shoji.

  Fiction book (1990)

• A vestibule of sorts, leading to a larger bed chamber constructed of rice paper shoji screens and tatami mats.

  Fiction book (1998)

• She placed the chair, borrowed from Norik's room, next to the shoji, from behind which the scent of the pines of the back garden seemed to come pressing in.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Thirty years ago, my wife, infant first son, and I had lived for two years in Japan, a country of exquisite beauty, near Tokyo, in an old house with shoji screens and tatami mats.

  Academic text (1991)

• The next morning, after Momoko had set off for Matsumoto, she sat down beside the shoji at the window looking out on the pine forest beyond the second-floor room and began sewing up white fabric for a summer kimono that she planned to use for nightwear, but she soon lost herself in thought and her sewing failed to progress.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The shoji screen allowed soft light to filter into the room, creating a peaceful atmosphere.

• He slid the shoji open to let in a cool breeze during the hot summer afternoon.

Synonyms

F

fusuma

vsshoji

• Specialized

1 9.9

A sliding door covered with paper used to divide rooms in a traditional Japanese house

lets light through with a wooden frame and translucent rice paper

Surface Forms

Etymology