Sudare
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Sudare are traditional Japanese screens or blinds, made of horizontal slats of decorative wood, bamboo, or other natural material, woven together with simple string, colored yarn, or other decorative
The writer Sei Shōnagon standing behind a misu
Misu protecting the view to the Imperial throne in the Shishin-den of Kyoto Imperial Palace
Less formal (but still cloth-bound) sudare in a common home; from the more brightly-lit side, they are opaque
Sudare on a train; from the more dimly-lit side, they are transparent
Shoji
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A shoji is a door, window or room divider used in traditional Japanese architecture, consisting of translucent sheets on a lattice frame. Where light transmission is not needed, the similar but opaque
Sudare
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Shoji paper sliding doors in the Rinshunkaku at Sankei-en (Important Cultural Property)
Shoji doors next to the tokonoma alcove, Rinshunkaku
A tatami room surrounded by paper shoji (paper outside, lattice inside). The shoji are surrounded by an engawa (porch/corridor); the engawa is surrounded by garasu-do, all-glass sliding panels.
A complex kumiko frame, open