One of the most famous features of traditional Japanese architecture, shoji 障子 are wooden latticed frames covered in translucent washi paper or cloth, and used to partition space. They typically slide ...

(CBS)-- Three Japanese sliding door paintings that were on display during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago have been discovered in a Park District storage facility, according to a ...

Last week, a trio of late-19th-century Japanese sliding door paintings, originally believed to be missing or destroyed, finally emerged after years spent hidden in a Chicago Park District storage ...

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