How to Use shoji in a Sentence

shoji

noun
Definition of shojinext
  • The toilet and the shower are at the far end of the large tents at The Fields, hidden by tastefully placed shoji screens.
    — Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2019
  • Sliding shoji-style doors lead to an airy room with an acacia-wood floor and a sleeping loft.
    — Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 3 May 2018
  • One of my childhood homes had kumiko ramma and shoji doors.
    — Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 11 June 2019
  • Rooms are spacious and serene, with shoji sliding doors, an enormous futon bed, and a bathroom that could be a spa.
    — Anna Chittenden, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2020
  • In the rooms, relax in comfortable luxe—Villeroy and Bach basins, European soaker bathtub with a shoji-style screen, chaise lounge and plush bedding.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • There are two-story glass walls, complete with privacy screens, a floating staircase, shoji screens, and porcelain floors.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The ultimate luxury spa getaway places you in a limestone-walled suite facing either the ocean, beach, or garden with your own teak tub, fireplace, and shoji-style closet.
    — Sunset Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The design has Asian elements, with Japanese-style shoji doors and a Japanese Zen garden off the master bedroom suite.
    — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
  • To frame those views, the team installed geometric partitions in the bar—some in gold and some in black—that call to mind traditional Japanese shoji screens, which are made of wood frames and inset with undyed paper.
    — Sarah Hucal, Curbed, 28 Sep. 2018
  • The quietude begins with a shoji screen by Mr. Childress that blocks off the gallery’s front window, its lightweight frame reiterating the six basic lines of the hexagram structure.
    — Roberta Smith, Holland Cotter and Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The original kitchen cabinetry remained but was outfitted with new, shoji-style doors.
    — Nancy Ngo, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Note the shoji screen window, the vertical wooden slats, and several generations of chefs behind said counter.
    — Krista Simmons, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The space is narrow and deep: 13 stools at a long bar under Tiffany-esque lamps, facing a wall of shoji screens, with Japanese matchboxes lined up precariously along its ledge.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 18 May 2017
  • This was true even with the panels that prefigured electronic screens, including shoji, as well as mirrors and newspaper broadsheets.
    — Susan Crawford, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Turning right takes you to the connected living and dining rooms, with their Brazilian cherry floors, vaulted ceilings, clerestory windows and shoji doors topped with lattice-wood inserts.
    — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The genius of the building is the exterior skin that contrasts a massive bulk of gothic terra-cotta, brick and concrete with thousands of delicate shoji-like industrial steel sash window panes — that swing open!
    — Sandy Deneau Dunham, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Tucked in a corner by the vast picture windows, guarded from the summer sun by shoji screens, a chiming Sonambient sculpture made in the early 1970s by the furniture designer Harry Bertoia, a Knoll colleague, stands quietly, waiting to be touched.
    — Michael Snyder, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020
  • In the room, viewers are told to create peepholes in the walls, an artistic interpretation of a rural Korean ritual where wedding-night consummations were watched by villagers who silently rubbed a hole into the shoji with a wet finger.
    — Tony Bravo, SFChronicle.com, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Like baby gates, these have become increasingly stylish and sophisticated, with designs ranging from warm woods to hand painted shoji-style screens to metals in hot designer finishes.
    — Janice Costa, House Beautiful, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The projection system transforms light and shadow whilst passing through paper inspired by traditional Japanese shoji screens.
    — Sarah Hucal, Curbed, 27 Nov. 2018
  • These accommodations are characterized by tatami mat flooring, low wooden tables, shoji screens, futon bedding, and yukata robes.
    — Christina Liao, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2018

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