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Architecture
Aristocratic Dwellings
The small, opaque, paper-framed sliding doors found on cupboards above or below shelving adjacent to the alcove *tokonoma 床の間. This is a characteristic of the *shoin 書院 style. The best examples of the kobusuma are found at Myōshinji Reiun'in Shoin 妙心寺霊雲院書院 in Kyoto, built in the second half of the 16th century.