Word: shoji
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...duet in Act I have been abandoned (there are no fireflies during the cherry-blossom season) ; though Puccini's gonglike orchestral effects are kept, the onstage gong that signaled the wedding is out (gongs are sounded at Japanese funerals). Cio-Cio-San no longer punches holes in the shoji (paper screen) walls of the house to watch for Pinkerton's return-for the good reason that a shoji slides open. Director Aoyama has Cio-Cio-San bind her legs before her suicide to prevent exposing them ("Even dying, a lady stays elegant"). As for Puccini's music...
...joined by covered walks. It has overhanging, many-levelled roofs, exposed beams, balconies and graceful stilts. Nearby are swimming pool, pond and a lake landscaped in Japanese style. Inside, the private rooms are furnished with an eye to simplicity; the public rooms are made flexible in size by sliding shoji panels. To permanent residents of the area it is not the Motel on the Mountain, but "the Japanese motel...
...least part of the therapy." His answer is a long, low, $112,000 clinic building that bears no resemblance to standard medical surroundings. Patients arriving for their 50-minute hours last week were ushered through the Oregon-basalt entrance into the spacious waiting rooms, screened by a shoji. The long, sky-lit corridor (which has warm, hand-rubbed oak-flooring walls) leads to the ten consulting rooms, each soundproofed to silence, looks out through a full glass wall onto a serene, narrow garden court planted with vine maples and deciduous huckleberries, and backed by a plastic fence paneled...
...wondered how the power of mass dismissal on ideological grounds might be used once the occupation had ended. But among the Japanese newspapermen the appeals of the discharged Communists met with little success, and few believed the Communist assertion that innocent people had been fired. Said balding, stocky Shoji Yasuda, managing editor of Tokyo's Yomiuri: "These people have been under surveillance for a long time and there's no mistake." The general public, conditioned by the Korean war and previous occupation directives against Japan's Communists (TIME, June 19), took the news with a shrugging "Tozen...
...Leach returned to England with a famous fellow potter named Shoji Hamada, and set up a kiln at St. Ives. The pottery still produced there by Leach and twelve students is much prized by his fans...