Fusuma Doors

Ranma, horizontal wooden transoms above fusuma sliding doors from a traditional Japanese house.

Their primary role was to define space in an otherwise bare, square room and were also used for religious and secular ceremonies. Unlike the sliding doors (fusuma), they were not fix...

19th century Japanese watercolor on paper Fusuma door panels, from the Kona School of Painting.

Gold leaf back paper. Originally fusuma (doors).

Screen was originally fusuma doors, mineral pigments on gold leaf with 18th century obi brocade boarder, late Edo period painting.

Probably hinoki trees with exaggerated color mineral pigments on mulberry paper signature on reverse side, by Susumu Tsushima (1923-2012) Each panel measures 33 inches high x 16 1...

Remounted as single panels and displayed accordingly. Mineral pigments on mulberry paper. Seal on front (unreadable) and signature on reverse, by Susumu Tsushima (1923-2012.) Each...

Japanese four-panel screen: Four Fusuma (Sliding doors) with venerable plum. Four individual fusuma (sliding doors), which can be hung together or separately.

Japanese Screen – Plum Tree in Snow Pair of Fusuma panels (sliding doors) with plum tree in snow design.

Silk brocade border and black lacquer trim. Originally fusuma (sliding doors). Signature and seal read: Yoshimura Shuzan.

Sliding doors (fusuma) were used in place of walls, allowing the internal configuration of a space to be customized for different occasions.

In an important turn of events, Hosokawa has recently painted and dedicated monumental fusuma-e (sliding door) paintings of dragons at the storied Ryoanji temple, a UNESCO World Heri...

Many of the works were used on sliding doors and walls (fusuma) of noble homes. The subject matter and style were often borrowed from the Heian period traditions of yamato-e, with e...

This screen was created from a pair of antique fusuma sliding interior doors and dates to the Edo period, circa 1800 or earlier.

This screen was created from a pair of antique fusuma sliding interior doors and dates to the Edo period, circa 1800 or earlier.

Placed above shoji or fusuma sliding doors, they allow light and air flow between rooms.

Sliding doors (fusuma) were used in place of walls, allowing the internal configuration of a space to be customized for different occasions.

His best known works are a set of fusumas (sliding doors) in Myoho–ji, a Nichiren temple, which are called Shiki kosaku-zu (?????

An exceptional pair of Japanese painted fusuma (opaque paper doors) with gold leaf (kinpaku) ground and polychrome painting of a misty landscape with bird and flower subjects (kacho).

A group of painters around him existed and continued painting large-scale works, such as screens and sliding fusuma doors, during the seventeenth century. We know the names of a hand...

The ranma would have originally been installed over interior partition doors (fusuma) in a traditional Japanese residence or building.

Many Rinpa paintings were used on the sliding doors and walls (fusuma) of noble homes. Subject matter and style were often borrowed from Heian period traditions of yamato-e, with el...