Illustration: Inside a lived-in Japanese house, a child slides an opaque paper-covered room divider sideways by its recessed round pull. The panel moves along the wooden groove between two tatami rooms, overlapping its matching panel.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

襖ふすま

fusuma

Japanese sliding door

Example sentences

がらがらと襖ふすまが開ひらく
the fusuma rattles open
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襖ふすま絵えは堂本印象どうもといんしょうの筆ふでである。
The paintings on the sliding doors are the work of Insho DOMOTO.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
用途ようとに合あわせて襖ふすまを開あけ閉しめして用もちいた。
The fusuma sliding doors were opened or closed according to the necessity of using these rooms.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 襖

襖opaque sliding doorOnオウKunふすま・あお

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