Marsh Reed Screens
The yoshizu is similar to the sudare, but differs in that whereas the sudare is regulated vertically, the yoshizu is drawn from left to right horizontally. It is thus often used in corridors to protect rooms from the heat of the sun. Like the sudare, it is easily moved or changed, and so ideally suited to shop facades or rooms that receive the light and heat of the sun for only a limited period each day.
The yoshizu can be used to provide protection from the sun by being designed into a kind of pergola. Alternatively it can be used as a fence for the home or garden. In multiple-story apartment blocks, the yoshizu may be fixed to the guardrail on the balcony to provide visual protection as well as a backdrop for a little garden. Like sudare, yoshizu may also be placed in a frame and made into a folding room divider or a beautiful sliding door. It may be used for cupboard doors in the kitchen or the garage or the bathroom.
Propped up against the veranda, yoshizu may be used as a temporary shelter for equipment or a makeshift playhouse for children. It may also provide shade for a vegetable patch.
Latticework
The aforementioned screening devices, while allowing the passage of air and providing sufficient visual protection, failed in the old days to provide protection against theft. The solution was the development of wooden lattices. Although not as sturdy as iron lattices, the wooden variety found in Japan provided
adequate security as well as another source of interior decoration, especially in contrast to white shoji doors and naturalcolored walls.
If the latticed screen is badly deployed, the protective quality is emphasized. It is thus best deployed as an internal partition (for which a wide lattice is recommended). Alternatively, it may be deployed as mere decoration. A more unusual use is to create a stairway effect of lattice and hang this between the kitchen and
the living room. Thin latticework, like the sudare and yoshizu, offer numerous possibilities for the kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom.
Reed screens may be propped up against the roof of the veranda during the hottest time of the day.
Side view of yoshizu and Yoshizu may be rolled up when not in use and are easy to carry.
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