Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 165
evel withthe mats; and in these grooves the screens run. The grooves in 126 JAPANESE HOMES AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS. the kamoi are made deep, in order that the screens may be liftedout of the floor-grooves and then dropped from the upper ones,and thus removed. In this way a suite of rooms can be… … Shil-ii Fig. 103. — Section through Verandah and Guest-room. one may have the opening between the rooms of any width hedesires. There are two forms of these sliding screens, — the one kind,called fusuma, forming the partitions between rooms; the otherkind, called shoji, coming on the outer sides of…
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