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The traditional tokonoma window provides exactly this. Without the window to provide this natural exit, the eye traverses the tokonoma like a wasp beneath an upturned shot glass.
TOKONOMA Traditional display area in a Japanese house where bonsai are brought inside for a short period and displayed with accent plantings and calligraphy.
Tokonoma: A tokonoma is a small raised alcove where individual specimen bonsai are displayed, consisting of three elements, the bonsai tree (man), a scroll (heaven) and an accessory (earth).
Tokonoma
A specific area in a house where Bonsai are displayed.
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77. Tokonoma - a Japanese tradition of creating a specific area in the home where bonsai, accessory plants, Suiseki, and scrolls are displayed together in harmony.
Bonsai Glossary: tokonoma - An area where individual specimen bonsai are displayed, consisting of three elements, the bonsai tree (man), a scroll (heaven) and an accessory (earth).
Morimae Ginza showcases several beautiful trees and tokonoma displays. On the second floor there is a selection of a few antique pots, tools and two more tokonoma displays.
In the traditional way of presenting Bonsai (Tokonoma) where heaven, earth and man is symbolized, stands: - the scroll for heaven (or the spiritual goal) - the accent plant for the earth - and the bonsai for m...
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The New Year is not complete unless the tokonoma - the special niche in every Japanese home used for the display of ornaments and prized possessions - is filled with a blossoming apricot or plum tree.
It is the pots and the way of potting, the display in a tokonoma, with stand, accent object and scroll and a lot more.
Many adopted the practice of placing fine bonsai in a 'tokonoma' - a special niche in every Japanese home whose purpose is to display special ornaments and prized possessions. Among these was invariably a bonsai or two.
Stands are also used when displaying your bonsai in a 'Tokonoma' arrangement.
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One of the cultural differences concerning the display of bonsai trees is, very basically, that traditional Japanese homes are architecturally and characteristically designed so as to contain within the structure itself a tokonoma or - a place of ...
When displayed inside a home, a formal bonsai display will be placed within a tokonoma.
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The plants are grown outdoors and brought in to the tokonoma at special occasions when they most evoke the current season.
pruned shorter or removed for container cultivation.
Tokonoma
A Japanese tradition of creating a specific area in the home where bonsai,
accessory plants, Suiseki, and scrolls are displayed together in harmony.
Traditional subjects for bonsai are pine, maple, flowering apricot, japanese wisteria, juniper, flowering cherry, and larch. The plants are grown outdoors and brought in to the tokonoma at special occasions when they most evoke the current season.
YAMADORI collected material
SUIBAN shallow water tray for display rock plantings
TOKONOMA traditional Japanese display area
BONKEI tray landscape containing rocks and small accent plants as well as trees.
Grown in special containers, bonsai are primarily kept outdoors (with the exception of some plants suited, trained and grown indoors), although they are often displayed on special occasions in the tokonoma, ...
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