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shoji::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | concealment, screen, cover, covert |
Examples of shoji
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Shoji likes to say that local designers have an advantage during awards season.
From the latimes.com
It includes a tatami room with sliding shoji screens and exquisite woodwork.
From the sfgate.com
Shoji screens in several rooms provide Asian design flair inside the two-level home.
From the sfgate.com
Cheap shoji screens separate different areas of the large, loft-like office.
From the businessweek.com
Shoji screens slide back to open the house on two sides and reveal views of the garden.
From the sfgate.com
It had tatami floors and shoji doors and views of a small garden below.
From the denverpost.com
These openings would be covered with shoji paper screens, and also with heavier wooden doors.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Figures walking in front of the shoji screens of bare tatami rooms looked like silhouettes.
From the npr.org
There are no distractions behind the shoji screen, just the soothing rhythm of a waterfall.
From the time.com
- A translucent screen made of a wooden frame covered with rice paper
- Attendant to Manjusri (image on the zendo altar); makes offering during formal meals.
- Sliding door made of wood and rice paper, common to domestic and monastic architecture during the later centuries of Japanese history. The ability to open the walls of a building in order to provide a full view of surrounding land is an important factor in Japanese garden design.
- Screens, windows, and doors with paper panes
- The sliding rice paper doors in Japanese houses
