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tokonomaIn 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. |
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A tokonoma is a cabinet used especially for display items. 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. The rest of the room was overshadowed by a yard-wide, floor-to-ceiling golden object I assumed was some sort of religious shrine - but later learned was a tokonoma, a stylized metal sculpture of an armored shogun, a centuries-old Japanese warrior. |
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