Jump to content

File:JapanHomes151 SHŌJI FOR WINDOW.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

JapanHomes151_SHŌJI_FOR_WINDOW.jpg (318 × 280 pixels, file size: 23 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: From original book: "As the room, when closed, receives its light through the shōji, the windows proper — that is, certain openings in permanent partitions which may be regarded as windows — have in most cases lost their functional character, and have become modified into ornamental features merely, many of them being strictly decorative, having none of the functions of a window whatever. These openings assume an infinite variety of forms, and appear in the most surprising places in the room. They may be placed low down near the floor, or close to the ceiling; indeed, they occur between the rooms when permanent partitions are present, and similar openings may be seen in the partition which separates the tokonoma from the chigai-dana. A window often occurs in a partition that continues some little distance beyond the outer edge of the tokonoma. This window is usually square, and is closed by a shōji. The upper cross-piece of the shōji-frame projects at each end, so that it may be hung in place on iron hooks (fig. 151). If the window comes near the tokonoma the shōji is hung on the outside of the room, as its appearance in this way is better from within. If it occurs in a partition near the chōdzu-bachi, the shōji is hung inside the room. Sometimes the shōji rests on grooved cleats or bars, which are fastened above and below the window, and oftentimes it runs inside the partition, — that is, in a partition that is double. The shōji in this case is often made in two portions, and parts to the right or left."
Date
Source https://www.kellscraft.com/JapaneseHomes/JapaneseHomesCh03.html
Author
Edward S. Morse  (1838–1925)  wikidata:Q2519303 s:en:Author:Edward Sylvester Morse
 
Edward S. Morse
Alternative names
Edward Sylvester Morse; E. S. Morse
Description American anthropologist, art historian, zoologist, malacologist, archaeologist and curator
Date of birth/death 18 June 1838 Edit this at Wikidata 20 December 1925 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Portland Salem
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q2519303

Licensing

Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country.
Note: This tag should not be used for sound recordings.PD-1923Public domain in the United States//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JapanHomes151_SH%C5%8CJI_FOR_WINDOW.jpg

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current01:07, 7 February 2020Thumbnail for version as of 01:07, 7 February 2020318 × 280 (23 KB)HLHJUser created page with UploadWizard

The following page uses this file:

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file: