Japanese shoji

Original Japanese sliding doors from Berlin

Your Shoji from Takumi:

We manufacture authentic shoji screens for you in first-class Japanese quality.

Or, if you prefer, modern, "Europeanized" shoji with unusual designs and innovative materials. Each door is custom-made for you, exactly according to your wishes.

Shoji partition made of pine

The material:

We build our shoji from selected high-quality solid woods:

Silver fir, pine, spruce, larch, hemlock, western red cedar. Other woods available on request. We select the best wood for our shoji ourselves at the sawmills. Straight, slow-grown, and with a fine striped grain.

The craft:

Traditionally designed, built with a great deal of craftsmanship and care:

We know and use centuries-old craftsmanship and state-of-the-art technology. All corner joints of the shoji are mortised, the muntin frames are laminated. Everything is stable, durable, and fits perfectly.

The surfaces

smooth planed, all colors, natural, oiled

Our shoji surfaces are finished (planed). This is the traditional and most natural surface—much smoother than sanded, and resistant to dust and dirt.

On request, we can also stain, oil, wax, or glaze your shoji.

The covering:

From traditional fine paper to tear-proof high-tech composite materials

Shoji?

Shoji are wooden frames covered with translucent paper that are installed as sliding frames on the windows in Japanese houses. In Japan, shoji fulfill the same function as our curtains, providing privacy at the window while reducing drafts and providing additional heat and sound insulation.

In large rooms such as temples, ryokans, palaces, and meeting rooms, shoji are also used in Japan as room dividers and flexible partitions. Shoji walls can not only be easily moved, but also completely removed, allowing for variable room layouts.

Shoji are not used as cabinet fronts or room doors in Japan. Traditionally, fusuma or Western-style room doors are used for this purpose.

Shoji in Europe

Shoji have become known in Europe as "Japanese sliding doors."

Shoji screens are particularly well suited to spacious rooms: hotels, meeting rooms, lofts, halls, and townhouses. They can fulfill a variety of functions in Western interiors: curtains, drapes, shutters, partitions, room dividers, and passage doors.

Shoji by Takumi for you

We look forward to working for you. What can we do for you? Visit us at our showroom in Berlin, take a look at our original Japanese paper furnishings, make your selection, and let us advise you. We will work with you to plan your individual furnishings with more or less Japanese flair.

If you already have ideas for your new interior design, feel free to email us a photo or your sketch. Or simply fill out our online shoji inquiry form. We will then get back to you shortly and provide you with a non-binding quote.

We are also happy to visit your home to present the options and take measurements. Please call us to arrange an appointment!

Please also visit our reference pages!

Shoji examples/views
Shoji paper with floral ornament as watermark Shoji larch with glass wing 640 Shoji dark stained as office partition 640 Shoji partition made of pine in the hallway of an old building, with skylight
Shoji larch Mediterranean.640 Shoji sliding door in pine with circular ornament and solid wood panel Shoji partition in the wellness area, white and orange Japanese paper Shoji larch with filling 640
2-panel shoji sliding door with delicate lattice ornamentation Shoji larch with filling 2,640 Hemlock shoji partition in the foyer of the Museum of Asian Art Shoji partition wall pine with filling 4,640
       

Shoji examples/details/fillings

Shoji that are not installed in windows often have fillings in the lower section. To add visual weight and contrast to the plain white paper, we use beautifully grained and textured solid woods or colored fusuma papers.
Shoji filling - solid larch - 640 Shoji pine filling-1 Shoji filling larch vertical 640 Shoji filling LA brushed.640
Shoji Fusuma filling Shoji Fusuma filling.640 Shoji filling - LA brushed. 2,640 Shoji filling - larch - smooth.640
       

Shoji examples/details/muntins
Small antique shoji with delicate ornamentation in the latticework Shojitür made of dark stained wood, with circular ornamentation in the rungs Pine shoji door with narrow slats at handle height Round lattice ornament in a shoji door made of light pine
Japanese shoji with vertical double slats