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    In Japanese architecture, fusuma (襖) are vertical rectangular panels which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces within a room, or act as doors...
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  • The World of Geisha (四畳半襖の裏張り, Yojōhan fusuma no urahari) a.k.a. A Man and a Woman Behind the Fusuma Screen is a 1973 Japanese film in Nikkatsu's Roman...
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  • The Tiger Fusuma (虎図襖, Tora zu Fusuma) is an Edo Period sliding door ink painting created in 1786 by artist Nagasawa Rosetsu, a student of Maruyama Ōkyo...
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    The Dragon Fusuma (龍図襖, Ryū zu Fusuma) is an Edo period sliding door ink painting created in 1786 by artist Nagasawa Rosetsu, a student of Maruyama Ōkyo...
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    Many fusuma had aluminum or plastic frames or sliding partitions. Fusumas were used to guide the eye to painted landscapes. Sometimes the fusuma were...
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    use of screen walls (the shōji and the fusuma). In traditional Japanese Architecture, the shoji and the fusuma are used to separate the spaces created...
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    lattice frame. Where light transmission is not needed, the similar but opaque fusuma is used (oshiire/closet doors, for instance). Shoji usually slide, but may...
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    elevated slightly off the ground, with tiled or thatched roofs. Sliding doors (fusuma) and other traditional partitions were used in place of walls, allowing...
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  • and fusuma (right rear, matching byōbu). Transition from Shinden style to Shoin style. Between the young man and the seated nun, sliding fusuma; behind...
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  • Fusuma An opaque partition consisting of a cloth or paper sheet over a wood framework, commonly seen in traditional Japanese architecture. Fusuma are...
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    Shunkō-in (春光院, Temple of the Ray of Spring Light) is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan and belongs to the Myōshin-ji (Temple of Excellent Mind) school...
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    DVD in October 2008. In October 2010, Asami starred in Shinshaku: Yojōhan fusuma no shitabari (新釈 四畳半襖の下張り), a "new interpretation" (Shinshaku) of the 1973...
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    featuring elements of traditional Japanese style culture such as washitsu (fusuma, tatami, and shōji) which were stylized in the Higashiyama culture...
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    of the most common types is fusuma, sliding doors made from wood and paper, which are portable and easily removed. Fusuma seal each partition from top...
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    period, the painters of the Kano school drew pictures on the walls and fusumas of castles and temples with the support of powerful people. Due to the...
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    published Kafū Nagai's Taishō era (1912-26) erotic short story "Yojōhan fusuma no shitabari". The work was immediately controversial, and in August 1972...
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    in Europe and North America. Their predecessor is the sliding Shōji and Fusuma panel door in traditional Japanese architecture. The post-war building boom...
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    for minka without central columns as the mats and the sliding partitions (fusuma (襖) and shōji (障子)) can be based on a standard size. It was mainly used...
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    a small waterfall. The modern artist Hideki Kimura created a number of fusuma sliding doors with blue lotus motifs to evoke the Pure Land. For an explanation...
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    traditional tatami flooring. Washitsu also usually have sliding doors (fusuma), rather than hinged doors between rooms. They may have shōji and, if the...
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    which people can sit comfortably. They also typically consist of shoji, fusuma, and ramas which allow for the space to be very minimalistic and cohesive...
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    Works of art included paintings on movable screens (byōbu), sliding doors (fusuma), and walls by Kanō Eitoku.: 380–82  Nobunaga promoted the tea ceremony...
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    (洛中洛外図屏風, Views in and around Kyoto) and the fusuma (襖, sliding doors) paintings entitled Kachō zu fusuma (花鳥図襖, Birds and flowers of the four seasons)...
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    of 20 fusuma (paper sliding door) paintings for the Shofuso Japanese House and Garden, in Philadelphia, PA. Asked to replace the destroyed fusuma paintings...
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    shoin has a core area surrounded by aisles, and smaller areas separated by fusuma sliding doors, or shōji partitions constructed of paper on a wooden frame...
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    ceremonies. Schools like Shoga, Kano, Tosa, Maruyama and Rimpa produced painted fusuma (cupboard door panel painting) over many generations for the decoration...
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    often exceedingly-hot, humid summers, multiple layers of sliding doors (fusuma and shōji) could be added or removed to moderate the temperature inside;...
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    lazuli technique. This work comprised 73 Fusuma-e (paintings on sliding doors). He was able to complete 12 Fusuma-e. On March 31, 2011, he died in a boating...
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    for hanging scrolls (kakemono), hand scrolls (emakimono), sliding doors (fusuma) or folding screens (byōbu). However, most are now produced on paper stretched...
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    emakimono; 24 are byōbu folding screens or paintings on sliding doors (fusuma); and three are albums. They are located in museums, Buddhist temples, Shinto...
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