Frames covered with paper, called shoji, slide along these grooves and form the wall between chamber and chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference
DIY paper 'shoji' style lamp made from recycled materials for under £5. From Wordnik.com. [Ecofriend] Reference
No answer came and cautiously he opened the shoji. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
Willie and Iris opened shoji screens as they came. From Wordnik.com. [December 6]
From a small aperture in the kitchen shoji, however. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
The tatami rooms were screened by a series of shoji. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
He took her through the house, out of the back shoji. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
He came crashing through the rent shoji like a wild boar. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
The dwarfish woman carefully closed the shoji behind him. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
They had silently removed three of the shoji next the passage!. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
Nishitsu made a guttural sound and the shoji screen slid open. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
The old man's rasping voice made the shoji screen walls quiver. From Wordnik.com. [Empire Builders]
The old dame threw aside the shoji like an armor, and walked in. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
A hand reached out, closed the shoji, cutting her off from Yuji. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
He pushed the shoji aside, slipped off his shoes, entered the room. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
'You see, I had your father take the shoji out and put the glass in.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
The shoji were full of holes, and often at each hole I saw a human eye. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
The presence of an unusual light under the shoji brought her to her knees. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Late at night my precarious shoji were accidentally thrown down, revealing. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
The walls were shoji screens, though undoubtedly they covered plaster and lathe. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
The whole front of my room is composed of shoji, which slide back during the day. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
Reaching down for her hand, he pulled her up and, opening a shoji, took her outside. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
Umè-ko in her room forgot her sewing, and leaned a delicate ear closer to the shoji. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
The screens (shoji) still separate the rooms; the shutters (amado) enclose it at night. From Wordnik.com. [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference
Behind the sensei a shadow appeared to move behind the shoji and then a figure emerged. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
This was no trendy hot spot decked out in shoji screen elegance and waxed pine counters. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
Nicholas burst backward through the last of the shoji, found himself in the dojo proper. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
Through an open shoji, Nicholas could see the snow silently falling, muffling all sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
It leads to the large master bedroom, which is closed off with translucent shoji screens. From Wordnik.com. [Owner delights in modern home's looks and utility] Reference
The shadow of the flower heads is apparent as though the orange wings were a shoji screen. From Wordnik.com. [Lucky Day « Fairegarden] Reference
The film is grim and gritty, overly dark and thinner than the rice paper in a shoji screen. From Wordnik.com. [Ninja Assassin Movie Review: Cutting All the Fun out of Martial Arts | /Film] Reference
With very cautious fingers she began now to separate the shoji that opened on the garden side. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Tatsu had, as rudely, reopened the shoji panels, tearing a large hole in the translucent paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Two of the four walls of the guest-room were of shoji, a lattice covered with translucent rice-paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
When you wish to pass from one room to the next you slide back one of the shoji, and shut it after you. From Wordnik.com. [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference
Her head turned slightly so that the flat curve of her cheek was outlined in the soft light filtered by the shoji. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
A pink light glowed upon his paper shoji; the plum tree, now entirely leafless, threw a splendid shadow-silhouette. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Mata, busy about her household tasks, sometimes passed across the matting, or flaunted a dusting-cloth within a partly opened shoji. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
He got up and crossed to the small nondescript desktop at the back of the office, camouflaged by an expensive Japanese shoji screen. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
The yadoya at Innai was a remarkably cheerful one, but my room was entirely fusuma and shoji, and people were peeping in the whole time. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
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