In western countries the doors open inwardly.
Traditional japanese house sliding doors.
Traditional shoji are handmade by craftsmen called tategu ya.
But in modern housing swing doors are dominant and the sliding doors are only to be seen for japanese style rooms which most of the modern house still contains one or two within.
Shoji is a style of japanese sliding door.
Japanese traditional houses normally have sliding doors for the entrance and rooms.
These partitions came to be fixed into the walls but that caused inconvenience so channel were made allowing the partitions to slide.
Shōji are very lightweight so they are easily slid aside or taken off their tracks and stored in a closet opening the room to other rooms or the outside.
A shōji is a door window or room divider used in traditional japanese architecture consisting of translucent sheets on a lattice frame.
Shoji is a style of japanese sliding door.
Traditional shoji are handmade by craftsmen called tategu ya.
Shoji panels are made of wooden frames with translucent white paper glued to a lattice structure.
One common feature of japanese traditional houses is that they have many sliding doors.
Minka or traditional japanese houses are characterized by tatami mat flooring sliding doors and wooden engawa verandas.
In early times they sometimes had dividing screens to partition large rooms.
Where light transmission is not needed the similar but opaque fusuma is used.
Shoji usually slide but may occasionally be hung or hinged especially in more rustic styles.