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fusuma

/fyoo-suh-mah/US // ˈfyu səˌmɑ //

夫子庙

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a sliding door in a Japanese house, especially one serving as a room partition.

Examples

  • Um-ko sat motionless against the silver fusuma, an ivory image, crowned and robed in shimmering gray.

  • She moved now deliberately to Um's fusuma, tapping lightly on the lacquered frame.

  • Now, for the benefit of her mother, whom she knew to be still behind the fusuma, Hoshiko tried to look very severe.

  • But Arisuga suspected that they were close behind the fusuma listening with staring eyes and gaping mouths.

  • Accompanied to the bed chamber the fusuma (screens) were closed, and he could hear the fall of the bars in the outer passages.