Exotic Japanese Room Dividers & ScreensThere are six main types of japanese room dividers and screens: - Byobu, folding screens, meaning "shelter from wind"
- Shoji, translucent rice paper doors or windows
- Tsuitate, single paneled entryway screens
- Fusuma, sliding doors
- Sugido, cedar boards
- Tobusuma, sliding wood screens
In contrast to the fairly limited uses of Chinese screens Japanese room dividers had many purposes, used for, as, or in: - tea ceremonies
- backdrops for concerts or dances
- enclosures for religious rites
- outdoor processions
Search through the catalogs of Stacks and Stacks and
Home Decorators for lots of cheap discount Japanese decorative dividers. |
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