"Boki-ekotoba," a picture scroll with an explanation depicting the biography of Kakunyo, a priest of Hongan-ji Temple of the Shinshu sect of Buddhism, which was made during the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (in 1351), and it contains a picture of a priest's body chamber with a double sliding shoji consisting of two koshidaka shoji and having a mairado (as defined above)-like structure in its lower half.
南北朝時代(日本)の観応二年（1351年）に描かれた真宗本願寺覚如の伝記絵『慕帰絵詞』に僧侶の住房に、下半分を舞良戸仕立てにした、腰高障子が2枚引き違いに建てられているのが描かれている。