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Delicate, sliding shoji screens served as stage curtains for the concerts her mom put on, starring local schoolkids and church friends.

A shoji screen is folded to reveal a closet glowing with Chinese opera costumes.

The roof is followed by a moon, shoji screen and a maple tree with a single leaf.

My grandmother, who would soon be a war widow, recalled the crackle of wooden houses consumed like kindling, how the flames danced as the shoji paper screens caught fire.

Her firm is seeing a rise in interest for such things as Turkish-pattern rugs and Japanese shoji screens, she says, and “we just did a tropical Hawaiian powder room,” featuring palm leaf wallpaper.