fusuma

American  

[fyoo-suh-mah] / ˈfju səˌmɑ /

noun

1. a sliding door in a Japanese house, especially one serving as a room partition.

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Etymology

Origin of fusuma

Borrowed into English from Japanese around 1875–80

Example Sentences

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fusuma

Set in a garden among plum and kiwi trees, the cottage has traditional tatami mats, shoji-paper and fusuma sliding doors, chunky wooden cabinets and tokonoma alcoves.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

The restaurant’s noodles incorporate a wheat bran, fusuma, and a wheat germ, haiga, to give the flour a grainier texture and, as the menu puts it, “a variety of nutrients.”

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 12, 2019

The restaurant’s noodles incorporate a wheat bran, fusuma, and a wheat germ, haiga, to give the flour a grainier texture and, as the menu puts it, “a variety of nutrients.”

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 12, 2019

The large tea-houses contain the possibilities for a number of rooms which can be extemporised at once by sliding paper panels, called fusuma, along grooves in the floor and in the ceiling or cross-beams.

From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

Uchida, peering at him from between the fusuma, perceived the glory and turned away in silence; nor for that day nor the next would he allow any one to approach the frenzied boy.

From The Dragon Painter by Fenollosa, Mary McNeil