Crossword-Solution: FUSUMA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The large tea-houses contain the possibilities for a number of rooms which can be extemporised at once by sliding paper panels, called _fusuma_, along grooves in the floor and in the ceiling or cross-beams.

The _yadoya_ was a very large one, and, as sixty guests had arrived before me, there was no choice of accommodation, and I had to be contented with a room enclosed on all sides not by _fusuma_ but _shôji_, and with barely room for my bed, bath, and chair, under a fusty green mosquito net which was a perfect nest of fleas.

Before you go the _fusuma_ are slidden back, and what was your room becomes part of a great, open, matted space—an arrangement which effectually prevents fustiness.

The Shôgun’s room contains some very fine _fusuma_, on which _kirin_ (fabulous monsters) are depicted on a dead gold ground, and four oak panels, 8 feet by 6, finely carved, with the phoenix in low relief variously treated.

The _fusuma_ are light planed wood with a sweet scent, the matting nearly white, the balconies polished pine.