How to Use shoji in a Sentence

shoji

noun
  • Sliding shoji-style doors lead to an airy room with an acacia-wood floor and a sleeping loft.
    — Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 3 May 2018
  • Hidden behind a shoji door, the tiny room has just enough space for a 12-seat sushi bar.
    — Lily O'Neill, The Denver Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Rooms are spacious and serene, with shoji sliding doors, an enormous futon bed, and a bathroom that could be a spa.
    — Anna Chittenden, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2020
  • There are two-story glass walls, complete with privacy screens, a floating staircase, shoji screens, and porcelain floors.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The original kitchen cabinetry remained but was outfitted with new, shoji-style doors.
    — Nancy Ngo, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Natural light flows in through clerestory windows and highlights maple paneling, shoji screens and wood accents.
    — Tj MacIas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Apr. 2024
  • In the office’s central space, blue, sliding shoji screens pay homage to Astroscale’s Japanese roots.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Slide open the shoji screens to reveal a beautiful garden and rise early for morning meditation with the resident monk.
    — Christina Liao, Vogue, 2 July 2024
  • Sleep in one of 229 Western-style rooms with shoji doors and other Japanese accents.
    — Rob Goss, AFAR Media, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Note the shoji screen window, the vertical wooden slats, and several generations of chefs behind said counter.
    — Krista Simmons, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2018
  • This was true even with the panels that prefigured electronic screens, including shoji, as well as mirrors and newspaper broadsheets.
    — Susan Crawford, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • In the rooms, relax in comfortable luxe—Villeroy and Bach basins, European soaker bathtub with a shoji-style screen, chaise lounge and plush bedding.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Each one is an ode to Japanese interior elements, furnished with tatami mats, shoji (panels lined with rice paper) and cypress soaking tubs.
    — John Wogan, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The serveware was custom designed in historic Gifu, Japan, and it’s inspired by traditional shoji screens (sliding paper screens).
    — Megan Wahn, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Turning right takes you to the connected living and dining rooms, with their Brazilian cherry floors, vaulted ceilings, clerestory windows and shoji doors topped with lattice-wood inserts.
    — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • To frame those views, the team installed geometric partitions in the bar—some in gold and some in black—that call to mind traditional Japanese shoji screens, which are made of wood frames and inset with undyed paper.
    — Sarah Hucal, Curbed, 28 Sep. 2018
  • These accommodations are characterized by tatami mat flooring, low wooden tables, shoji screens, futon bedding, and yukata robes.
    — Christina Liao, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The design has Asian elements, with Japanese-style shoji doors and a Japanese Zen garden off the master bedroom suite.
    — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The projection system transforms light and shadow whilst passing through paper inspired by traditional Japanese shoji screens.
    — Sarah Hucal, Curbed, 27 Nov. 2018
  • The genius of the building is the exterior skin that contrasts a massive bulk of gothic terra-cotta, brick and concrete with thousands of delicate shoji-like industrial steel sash window panes — that swing open!
    — Sandy Deneau Dunham, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • In the room, viewers are told to create peepholes in the walls, an artistic interpretation of a rural Korean ritual where wedding-night consummations were watched by villagers who silently rubbed a hole into the shoji with a wet finger.
    — Tony Bravo, SFChronicle.com, 3 Nov. 2019
  • At 560 square feet minimum, rooms push the boundaries of space standards in central Tokyo — while Traditional Suites triple that, adding the trappings of authentic Japanese interiors like tatami mats and shoji screens.
    — Paul Jebara, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Tucked in a corner by the vast picture windows, guarded from the summer sun by shoji screens, a chiming Sonambient sculpture made in the early 1970s by the furniture designer Harry Bertoia, a Knoll colleague, stands quietly, waiting to be touched.
    — Michael Snyder, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Bamboo Leaf Shoji Designed by Seido Iwata, the first head of Sekiso School of Ikebana, a paper sliding door, called shoji in Japanese, shows the silhouette of bamboo leaves gently swaying outside the window on the translucent washi paper.
    — Isabelle Kliger, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Rather than relying on familiar Japanese motifs, such as shoji screens, the interior has been built around traditional timber-framing techniques, using cypress wood processed in Japan and assembled in Paris by Association Daiku, a collective dedicated to preserving Japanese carpentry traditions.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 23 June 2026

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