The room is in the sukiya style favored by Rikyu, with the walls a patchwork of dull plaster, raw wood, a few shoji rice-paper windows, and a small tokonoma art alcove.
As the guest kneels on the cushions and sips green tea, the host may slide aside a rear shoji to reveal the roofless garden of the inner courtyard, his private abstraction of the natural landscape.
Arrangements for summer cooling are equally metaphysical; the shoji are simply thrown open in hopes of snaring wayward breezes, whose meager cooling is enhanced psychologically by the tinkle of wind bells hung in the verandas.
By the time the dinner is over and the shoji removed, we have all become good friends.
I see the broadshoji of dwellings beyond the river suffused with the soft yellow radiance of invisible lamps; and upon those lighted spaces I can discern slender moving shadows, silhouettes of graceful women.
Shoji next are opened, disclosing often the dull green mosquito net hung from corner to corner of the low-ceiled sleeping rooms.
The presence of an unusual light under the shoji brought her to her knees.
Rudely she had slammed the shoji together, calling out to him that he had better be off doing the one thing he was fit to do, rather than to be skulking around her special domain.
Tatsu had, as rudely, reopened the shoji panels, tearing a large hole in the translucent paper.
With very cautious fingers she began now to separate the shojithat opened on the garden side.
The old dame threw aside theshoji like an armor, and walked in.
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Then are the upper shoji violently pushed apart; and the voice of the enraged house owner is heard: 'Koko Wa kiraida!
It is devoted entirely to chrysanthemum plants, which are shielded from heavy rain and strong sun by slanting frames of light wood fashioned, like shoji with panes of white paper, and supported like awnings upon thin posts of bamboo.
Within a hotel or even a common dwelling-house, nobody knocks before entering your room: there is nothing to knock at except a shoji or fusuma, which cannot be knocked upon without being broken.
The shoji were full of holes, and often at each hole I saw a human eye.
At five on Sunday morning I saw three faces pressed against the outer lattice, and before evening the shoji were riddled with finger-holes, at each of which a dark eye appeared.
Late at night my precarious shoji were accidentally thrown down, revealing a scene of great hilarity, in which a number of people were bathing and throwing water over each other.
They had silently removed three of the shoji next the passage!
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The slight paper shoji and fusuma between the small rooms serve only partially to shut out peering eyes; they afford no protection from listening ears.
Within a hotel or even a common dwelling house, nobody knocks before entering your room; there is nothing to knock at except a shoji or a fusuma, which cannot be knocked at without being broken.
We could not go to sleep, nor could we remain with our faces stuck to the shoji all the time our minds constantly in a state of feverish agitation.
From early in the evening up to past twelve, he would glue his eye to the shoji and keep steadily watching under the gas globe of Kadoya.
The shoji alone was dimly plain by the star light.
By the light thus given the room stood revealed, an eyrie, encased on all sides except the one of approach by shoji only.
Half the houses about it were dark as tombs; the other half showed only glimmering shoji taunting me by the sounds they suffered to escape, or by a chance silhouette thrown for a moment upon the paper wall by some one within.
The morning that was to give me my self-promised land crept on tiptoe into the room on the third story, and touched me where I slept, and on pushing the shoji apart and looking out, I beheld as fair a day as heart could wish.
When Yejiro pushed the shoji and the amado (night shutters) apart in the morning, he disclosed a bank of snow four feet deep; not a snowfall over night, but the relic of the winter.
By day the shadows on the shoji are from outside only; but they may be very wonderful at the first rising of the sun, if his beams are leveled, as in this instance, across a space of quaint garden.
The lord Oguri, consenting, rode upon the top of the screen; and then he rode along the top of an upright shoji frame.
I wish the paper of my shoji could have been, like a photographic plate, sensitive to that first delicious impression cast by a level sun.
But shadows on shoji are so remarkable as to suggest explanation of certain Japanese faculties of drawing by no means primitive, but developed beyond all parallel, and otherwise difficult to account for.
She parted the entrance shoji very craftily, one bent eye to the crack.
At the tea-rooms she sprang to the narrow, railless veranda, drawing a single shoji panel carefully to one side.
I make request) he called, rapping on the closed shoji panels with his knuckles.
Dodge, more deliberately, motioned Suzume to remove his shoes, standing first on one foot, then on the other, and balancing himself by the aid of a shoji frame.
Just in front of Yuki's shoji and the narrow veranda which ran unchecked along the south and west of the house, two sedate gray stones led into a gravelled space.
The outershoji stood well apart, letting in the chill, wet sweetness of the night.
The shoji were sliding apart, both at once, with noiseless precision.
To-day the western shoji were all closed; but the sun, just reaching them, shed a mellow tone of light throughout the room.
Sombre shoji opened, before the visitors had time to dismount.
All southern shojiwere out, admitting, as it were, the fine old garden as part of the decoration of the room.
You must lie on them very still, and keep all these shoji shut close until I can go and get some medicine for you.
The master went at once into his little study, banging shojiand fusuma close around him.
They were now skirting the closed shoji of the dining-room.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shoji" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
