Japanese Old house is basically made of natural materials
like Wood(wall), Paper(door), Grass(roof, floor), Clay(wall, floor), etc.
Look at our Guest House Doors (before reconstruction).
There are 2 types.
One is 'SHOJI' mainly made of thin paper
which can gain the sunshine indirectly
same as the curtains in the western houses.
The other is 'FUSUMA' made of thick paper
which shuts out outside sunshine and noise,
more suitable for private zone.
Please take care when you open these paper doors,
because papers easily broken.
Especially SHOJI-Paper is very very delicate!
In fact, you see some holes of paper, don't you!
Every year end, we Japanese renewal these papers of SHOJI
for celebrating the new year.
This is our culture.