Shoji is a style of japanese sliding door.
Traditional japanese house sliding doors.
Minka or traditional japanese houses are characterized by tatami mat flooring sliding doors and wooden engawa verandas.
Interior walls of houses constructed with shoji doors can be removed from their tracks to expand the rooms for parties.
Japanese traditional houses normally have sliding doors for the entrance and rooms.
Traditional shoji are handmade by craftsmen called tategu ya.
These partitions came to be fixed into the walls but that caused inconvenience so channel were made allowing the partitions to slide.
Shoji panels are made of wooden frames with translucent white paper glued to a lattice structure.
Shoji is a style of japanese sliding door.
But in modern housing swing doors are dominant and the sliding doors are only to be seen for japanese style rooms which most of the modern house still contains one or two within.
Where light transmission is not needed the similar but opaque fusuma is used.
Shoji usually slide but may occasionally be hung or hinged especially in more rustic styles.
Interior walls of houses constructed with shoji doors can be removed from their tracks to expand the rooms for parties.
In early times they sometimes had dividing screens to partition large rooms.
Traditional shoji are handmade by craftsmen called tategu ya.
In western countries the doors open inwardly.
Another aspect that persists even in western style homes in japan is the.