fusuma

American  

[fyoo-suh-mah] / ˈfyu 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

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 fusuma are sliding screens serving as doors.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Hearn, Lafcadio

Within a hotel or even a common dwelling house, nobody knocks before entering your room; there is nothing to knock at except a shoji or a fusuma, which cannot be knocked at without being broken.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis