after the chodai is built up , about 90 cm-high kicho (a curtained frame put up to screen royal personages or noble ladies from direct view of those around them ) is stood up as a screen on each face of east , west and south and on hamayuka (a low podium ). 帳台を立てると、東西と南の側と浜床に3尺の几帳を立てて目隠しにする。
during the nara period , such movable ' shoji ' (a generic term for partitions , that may slide , hang or remain stationary , that can divide the interior of a building into separate rooms ) as a screen , bamboo blind and kicho (a curtained frame put up to screen royal personages or noble ladies from direct view of those around them ), were used . 奈良時代には、衝立や簾、几帳のような可動式の「障子」が使用されていた。
the only exception is the portrait of the high priestess (saigu ) kishi; she is sitting on a tatami mat with ugen-beri (a hem made of silk fabrics colored in one color with sequential layers from light to dark ) with a folding screen at the back and a kicho (a curtained frame put up to screen royal personages or noble ladies from direct view of those around them ) at the front to indicate her noble status . ただし、中で身分の高い斎宮女御徽子のみは繧繝縁（うんげんべり）の上畳（あげだたみ）に座し、背後に屏風、手前に几帳を置いて、格の高さを表している。
