Besides being set up on the internal side of bamboo screens (to in effect from a double barrier), the Kicho screen was employed in large rooms as a moveable room divider and to obscure things from view etc.
簾の内側に立てて二重の障壁とするほか、可動式の間仕切り・目隠しとして大きな部屋の仕切りに使った。