folding screen
A portable room divider consisting of multiple hinged panels, often decorated with paintings or calligraphy. Used in traditional Japanese interiors.
部屋の仕切りに屏風を立てた。
I set up a folding screen to partition the room.
She set up a folding screen in the corner of the tatami room.
金箔の屏風が美術館に展示されている。
A gold-leaf folding screen is on display at the museum.
部屋を屏風で仕切って寝室にした。
We partitioned off part of the room with a folding screen to make a bedroom.
A famous painter decorated the folding screen with a gold-leaf painting.
間仕切り is a general term for any room partition (walls, curtains, screens), whereas 屏風 refers specifically to a decorated folding screen.
屏風 is the general word for any folding screen, while 金屏風 specifically means one covered in gold leaf, often used for formal or celebratory occasions.
sheer cliff; folding-screen rock
folding screen painting; picture on a folding screen
bedside screen; small folding screen placed near the pillow
gold-leaf folding screen
Nanban folding screen; painted screen depicting early European visitors to Japan
Standard kanji spelling; commonly used in news and everyday contexts.
Rarely used kanji form; the first character is a variant of 屏.
From Chinese 屏風 (píngfēng), literally 'screen wind', referring to a screen that blocks wind. The Japanese reading びょうぶ is a go-on reading of the characters.