A sliding screen made of paper over a wood frame, often decorated with painting, and used as a room divider.

sliding door

(Pronunciation: "foo-SOO-mah") Sliding doors constructed of wood and paper. Fusuma slide along tracks set in the floor and transom, thus dividing the interior space into separate rooms. The surfaces of fusuma are often decorated with paintings.

In Japanese architecture, fusuma (襖) are opaque vertical rectangles which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces within a room, or act as doors. They typically measure about 3 feet wide by 6 feet tall, the same size as a tatami mat, and are two or three centimetres thick. The heights of fusuma have increased in recent years due to an increase in average height of the Japanese population, and a 190 cm height is now common.