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In traditional Japanese architecture
Japanese architecture

has a long history as any other aspect of Culture of Japan. Originally heavily influenced by Chinese architecture from the Tang Dynasty , it has also developed many differences and aspects which are indigenous to Japan....
, a shoji is a door, window or room divider consisting of translucent paper over a frame of wood or bamboo. While washi
Washi

is a type of paper made in Japan. Washi is commonly made using fibers from the bark of the gampi tree, the mitsumata shrub , or the paper mulberry, but also can be made using bamboo, hemp, rice, and wheat....
 is the traditional paper, shoji may be made of paper made by modern manufacturing processes; plastic is also in use.

Shoji doors are often designed to slide open, and thus conserve space that would be required by a swinging door.






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In traditional Japanese architecture
Japanese architecture

has a long history as any other aspect of Culture of Japan. Originally heavily influenced by Chinese architecture from the Tang Dynasty , it has also developed many differences and aspects which are indigenous to Japan....
, a shoji is a door, window or room divider consisting of translucent paper over a frame of wood or bamboo. While washi
Washi

is a type of paper made in Japan. Washi is commonly made using fibers from the bark of the gampi tree, the mitsumata shrub , or the paper mulberry, but also can be made using bamboo, hemp, rice, and wheat....
 is the traditional paper, shoji may be made of paper made by modern manufacturing processes; plastic is also in use.

Shoji doors are often designed to slide open, and thus conserve space that would be required by a swinging door. They are used in traditional houses as well as Western-style housing, especially in the washitsu
Washitsu

A , or Japanese-style room, is a traditional Japanese-style room with tatami flooring, and possibly shoji and a tokonoma. It usually has fusuma, sliding, rather than hinged, doors....
 (Japanese-style room). In modern construction, the shoji does not form the exterior surface of the building; it sits inside a sliding glass door or window.

Although the word shoji formerly also applied to the opaque fusuma
Fusuma

In Japanese architecture, fusuma are vertical rectangular panels which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces within a room, or act as doors....
, the two are now distinct.

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