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2. List of partitions of traditional Japanese architecture

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   Between the young man and the seated nun, sliding fusuma; behind them, non-sliding fusuma. On the young man's side, hajitomi shutters, horizontally split, with the upper half held up by hooks. On the nun's side, there are diagonally-planked sliding maira-do. Behind the young man speaking with the maidservant, similar non-sliding panels.

3. Shoji - Wikipedia

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   Sliding partitions (hiki-do, 引戸, literally "sliding door") did not come into use until the tail end of the Heian, and the beginning of the Kamakura period. [99] Early sliding doors were heavy; some were made of solid wood. [100] Initially used in expensive mansions, they eventually came to be used in more ordinary houses as well. [99]

4. Japanese architecture - Wikipedia

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   Sliding doors and other traditional partitions were used in place of walls, allowing the internal configuration of a space to be customized for different occasions. People usually sat on cushions or otherwise on the floor, traditionally; chairs and high tables were not widely used until the 20th century.

5. Room divider - Wikipedia

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   Casa Loma, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Room-divider/screen, (Ethnographic Museum, Belgrade) A room divider for a conference hall. A room divider is a screen or piece of furniture placed in a way that divides a room into separate areas. [1] [2] Room dividers are used by interior designers and architects as means to divide space into separate ...

6. Sliding glass door - Wikipedia

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   The actual sliding door is a movable rectangular framed sheet of window glass that is mounted parallel to a similar and often fixed similarly framed neighboring glass partition. The movable panel slides in a fixed track usually, and in its own plane parallel to the neighboring stationary panel.

7. Wall - Wikipedia

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   A partition wall is a usually thin wall that is used to separate or divide a room, primarily a pre-existing one. Partition walls are usually not load-bearing, and can be constructed out of many materials, including steel panels, bricks, cloth, plastic, plasterboard, wood, blocks of clay, terracotta, concrete, and glass. Some partition walls are ...