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Definition of Fusuma
1. Noun. A vertical rectangular sliding panel, often painted or decorated, used in Japan as a door or movable wall. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fusuma
1. a sliding partition in a Japanese house [n FUSUMA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fusuma
Literary usage of Fusuma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Japan at First Hand: Her Islands, Their People, the Picturesque, the Real by Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke (1918)
"... LIFE IN JAPAN Spotlessness and severe plainness the note—Houses without chairs
or bedsteads, the fusuma, the tokonoma and kakemono —A wife's long round ..."
2. Temple Treasures of Japan by Garrett Chatfield Pier (1914)
"Kano Eitoku is represented here by two fusuma with Chinese figure designs in rich
... 1607-1651, is badly exemplified in a series of fusuma embellished with ..."
3. Terry's Japanese Empire: Including Korea and Formosa, with Chapters on by Thomas Philip Terry (1914)
"The next room is called Jako-no-ma, from the civet-cats painted (along with cranes
and landscapes) on the fusuma. The Chinese scenes in the next room, ..."
4. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1907)
"The connexion of fusuma with hiki, draw, is obvious, but it seems probable that
the expression is not a mk at all but merely a place-name. ..."
5. The Book of a Hundred Houses: A Collection of Pictures, Plans and (1902)
"Presently the fusuma slide softly and a little maid enters, ... Finally the fusuma
open and Danna San is seen kneeling and prostrating himself in reverent ..."
6. "Out of the East.": Reveries and Studies in New Japan by Lafcadio Hearn (1896)
"The designs vary in different parts of the dwelling; I will speak only of the
fusuma dividing my study from a smaller apartment. ..."
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