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tokonoma

In a Japanese room, an alcove with a low platform, used for the display of a flower arrangement and hanging scroll or other art objects. A feature of the shoin-zukuri style, the tokonoma is the focal point and spiritual centre of the interior of almost every traditional Japanese house. It finds its origins in the private altar space of the Zen Buddhist monk, which contained a hanging Buddhist scroll and a narrow wooden table with an incense burner and votive candles.

tokonoma
In the Japanese house, an alcove, raised above the floor, for displaying a hanging scroll and a flower arrangement.
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Tokonoma is a type of Japanese room where artwork is displayed, while kakemono refers to scroll pictures.
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Fujimori has not only guided the making of it to an extreme degree, but has, in fact, built parts of it with his own hands, the most prominent of his pieces is certainly the set of shelves in the main room, which act as a tokonoma and are always graced with a vase.
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