A tokonoma (床の間), or simply toko (床), is a recessed space in a Japanese-style reception room, in which items for artistic appreciation are displayed. In...

his back to the tokonoma; the kamiza is the spot closest to the tokonoma or simply farthest from the door in a room lacking a tokonoma. In a Western-style...

for display; objet d'art; decorative object", typically displayed in a tokonoma alcove or butsudan altar. The Japanese word okimono compounds oku (置く,...

Spanish, alcoba).[citation needed] Niche (architecture) Mihrab Box-bed Tokonoma Setback (architecture) "alcove". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Merriam-Webster...

lattice covered in a translucent Japanese paper; tatami mat floors; a tokonoma alcove; and simple, subdued colours and style. The most typical floor size...

New Year's – the sharpened and taken-care of tools would be placed in a tokonoma (a container or box still found in Japanese houses and shops), and two...

tabi socks. Ideally, the waiting room has a tatami floor and an alcove (tokonoma), in which is displayed a hanging scroll which may allude to the season...

invite the gods. Later, flower arrangements were instead used to adorn the tokonoma (alcove) of a traditional Japanese home. Ikebana is counted as one of the...

described as "the silence between the notes which make the music". The tokonoma alcove in a traditional Japanese room is a space or a stage used to display...

reception room is characterized by specific features: a recessed alcove (tokonoma); staggered shelves; built-in desks; and ornate sliding doors. Generally...

particular room is meant to serve as a reception room for guests, it may have a tokonoma (alcove for decorative items). Traditionally, most rooms in a Japanese...

end there is a tokonoma, and to its right there is a chigaidana (a staggered group of ornamental shelves). The walls of the tokonoma and chigaidana are...

chabana will share the tokonoma space with the kakemono, but depending on the circumstances the kakemono might be up in the tokonoma when the guests first...

season, when the hearth built into the floor is in use. The room has a tokonoma and mizuya dōko Room with tatami flooring in an inauspicious layout and...

2018. . 2019 On February 20, 2019, the group released their 20th single Tokonoma Seiza Musume. Miru Shiroma is the center for this single. On August 14...

development to arise from the lower vantage point were the tokonoma and chigaidana. The tokonoma was an elevated recess built into the wall to create a space...

the dead]" + ya, "house"') - also called otamaya, mitamaya, or soreisha Tokonoma Shinto shrines also enshrine a shintai, which can however be of a kind...

may be placed in Western-style rooms and entranceways, not just in the tokonoma alcove found in traditional Japanese-style rooms. While distinctly a hallmark...

Kitayama Maruta logs became popular in tea room construction, such as the tokonoma alcove. Although originally a forestry management technique, daisugi has...

small rooms of usually four and a half tatami, or even less, that had a tokonoma and shelves. These buildings were normally entered through a garden often...

mochi with Japanese armour and Japanese swords and would place them in the tokonoma (alcove in a traditional Japanese room where art or flowers are displayed)...

important guest is also seated farthest away from the entrance. If there is a tokonoma, or alcove, in the room, the guest is seated in front of it. The host sits...

tea-master has arranged a flower to his satisfaction he will place it on the tokonoma, the place of honour in a Japanese room. It rests there like an enthroned...

Shoji doors next to the tokonoma alcove, Rinshunkaku...

Japanese home, a formal bonsai display will often be placed within the home's tokonoma or formal display alcove. An indoor display is usually very temporary,...

in a household Shinto altar, or kamidana. They are also placed in the tokonoma, a small decorated alcove in the main room of the home. Contemporary kagami...

the room. Mantel clock Millwork Staffordshire dog figurine Stone carving Tokonoma  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication...

north side, where the tea house connects with another building, there is a tokonoma. The entrance, on the south side, is said to have been designed larger...

displayed in the courtyard, certain trees are displayed in traditional tokonoma alcoves inside the house. The building also houses a sizeable collection...

a wooden frame, was installed inside the wooden shutters. In the room, tokonoma (alcove for the display of art objects) and chigaidana (shelves built into...