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2. Shoji - Wikipedia

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   A tatami room surrounded by paper shoji (paper outside, lattice inside). The shoji are surrounded by an engawa (porch/corridor); the engawa is surrounded by garasu-do, all-glass sliding panels. A shoji (障 しょう 子 じ, Japanese pronunciation: [ɕo: (d)ʑi]) is a door, window or room divider used in traditional Japanese architecture ...

3. Window shutter - Wikipedia

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   Window shutter. A window shutter is a solid and stable window covering usually consisting of a frame of vertical stiles and horizontal rails (top, centre and bottom). Set within this frame can be louvers (both operable or fixed, horizontal or vertical), solid panels, fabric, glass and almost any other item that can be mounted within a frame.

4. Louver - Wikipedia

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   Louver. A louver (American English) or louvre (British English; see spelling differences) is a window blind or shutter with horizontal slats that are angled to admit light and air, but to keep out rain and direct sunshine. The angle of the slats may be adjustable, usually in blinds and windows, or fixed.

5. Window blind - Wikipedia

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   Window blind. A window blind is a type of window covering. [1] There are many different kinds of window blinds which use a variety of control systems. A typical window blind is made up of several long horizontal or vertical slats of various types of hard material, including wood, plastic or metal which are held together by cords that run ...

6. Engawa - Wikipedia

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   Engawa, with sliding glass doors outside, and yukimi shōji (shōji with both paper and glass panes) inside. The solid wood amado leaning up against the corner is a storm shutter, and is usually stored away. An engawa (縁側/掾側) or en (縁) is an edging strip of non- tatami -matted flooring in Japanese architecture, usually wood or bamboo.

7. List of partitions of traditional Japanese architecture

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   Heavy wood-lattice shutters Usually horizontally split and hinged (hajitomi), but were occasionally vertically split and hinged. [11] When open, the upper half is held horizontal by hooks, and the lower half is either folded flat against the underside of the upper half and held by hooks, or removed and carried away. Part of Shinden style. [3]