Many of us who own homes like to spend time and money into creating the right ambiance for each room. Rooms in our home have different purposes and so it only makes sense to create the mood that you typically want to dominate a singular living space. There are many ways to do this. You can convert around the decor, paint the walls, add or subtract a window, and the list goes on and on. One of the best ways to create an atmosphere is by changing or adding to the artificial lighting in a room. Adding a Shoji lamp to the room can add dramatically to the mood of a room.
Shoji lamps have been in use in China and Japan since ancient times and one only has to see the movie "The last Samurai" to appreciate the type of aesthetic that this kind of lamp can create. For the most part the term "shoji" refers to idea of creating a wall or obstruction by using a frame covered with rice paper. This type of frame on a sliding mechanism was designed to diffuse light throughout a home as well as to create enclosures for privacy within a home. The conception of the lamp comes from this idea of diffusing light to create a definite ambiance.
Japanese School Girls
Shoji lamps are easy frame constructs that basically wrap rice paper around a light source. The frame is ordinarily wood or bamboo in the traditional occidental style but can be made from anyone since the conception remains the same. The rice paper can be commercially man-made paper like the tracing paper you used to use in grade school or it can be the more expensive handmade Japanese paper.
The lighting source can be an incandescent light, a halogen bulb or even an oil lamp. The more flattering type of light source would be one that had more of the yellow hue component in the light instead of the blue component like some fluorescent lights and Led lights. This depends on the kind of mood that you're trying to create. The light sources that have more of the blue spectrum also has its purpose when you are trying to create an ambiance reminiscent of moonlight.
The make of the frame contributes the most to the mood that one would want to create. It can be a as easy as a box frame with four legs or it can be as justify as a finely built piece of furniture that resembles a piece of sculpture in the room that happens to be a light source as well. The other way a shoji lamp can carry mood is through artwork. Painted lamps are part of the Japanese and Chinese tradition depicting such iconic motifs like geisha girls and Samurai warriors. anyone type of shoji lamp suits your fancy it is a exact departure from the norm in lighting and will convert the mood of any room in your home and give it a decidedly Occidental flavor.
Changing the Mood With a Shoji Lamp
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