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Monday, Spring or not, it's

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Monday, Spring or not, it's

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Monday, Spring or not, it's

too cold to open windows but my screens are hinged or sliding panels designed to divide and separate spaces or provide privacy. The ones I�m looking for are INTERIOR, Asian, and used as wall art, backgrounds, and to keep stuff from view. Probably second to throw pillows these types of screen are the interior designer�s biggest catchall. There are three name specific types, name them. These types are NOT the pierced type developed by the Turks and Moors to the mid east and Mediterranean.

1. The first uses wood panes and translucent paper and slide on tracks.

2. The second are predominently black or red, heavy, floor standing, low relief, with a mural or all over patterns cut into them

3. The third type is decorated scenes painted on silk or paper mounted on a gold or black folding wooden frame and used mostly as wall art.

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What answer do you want us to show...gee, I'm not sure you are looking for one answer or three?

Tommy

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clarification

I'm looking for three names. Each type has a name.

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Monday answer

The first type of screen is the SHOJI or FUSAMA. Shoji can be used interior or exterior. Fusuma are interior only. These screens are intricately made usually rectangular wooden panes with the interior being translucent rice or mulberry paper. These are the ones you see in every samurai or tea house scene movie ever made.

The second screen is a COROMANDEL. These are large floor folding screens decorated in low relief. They are carved black or red lacquer, (there are some with a golden color as well) usually showing landscape scenes with a number of human figures. Palaces, peacocks, vines, landscapes, are common. These are large art approximately 72� x 72� and may be bigger with eight panels or more. They were introduced into Europe in the seventeenth century by the East India Company.

The third type of screen is BYOBU and small scale painted folding screens. Normally silk stretched over wood. They can be of any subject, but for the American taste birds and cherry blossoms on a branch, horse and crane figures, Koi, bamboo, and landscapes are common. Flowers, especially chrysanthemums, are also a favorite subject. They can be as small a 1 foot by 2 feet or as large as a wall. Because they are silk they are very light weight but need to be kept out of direct sunlight.

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