Inside Shinden-zukuri is one room with no separating structures, so portable partitions such as kicho, byobu and tsuitate were used, but as the outer sides of the building have no walls and the interior and exterior become one space when the shitomido are raised, there is a panoramic view of the whole garden.
寝殿造りの室内は1室住居で間仕切はなく、移動家具である几帳・屏風・衝立などを使っての軽い仕切のみで建物の外周に壁はなく、蔀戸を跳ね上げればまったく開放されて室内外は一体となり、庭全体はパノラマのように見渡すことができた。