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Definition of Tokonoma

1. a small alcove in a Japanese house [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tokonoma

Literary usage of Tokonoma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward Sylvester Morse (1886)
"The rectangular shape of the rooms, and the general absence of all jogs and recesses save the tokonoma and companion recess in the best room are noticeable ..."

2. Japan at First Hand: Her Islands, Their People, the Picturesque, the Real by Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke (1918)
"... the fusuma, the tokonoma and kakemono —A wife's long round of duties—Marriage and mothers-in- law—No courtship—Easy divorce—What makes against social ..."

3. The Silent Readers by William Dodge Lewis, Albert Lindsay Rowland (1920)
"This is the vase which stands before the tokonoma. The tokonoma is a very quaint feature of a Japanese house. The word means a place in which to lay a bed, ..."

4. The Silent Readers by William Dodge Lewis, Albert Lindsay Rowland (1920)
"This is the vase which stands before the tokonoma. The tokonoma is a very quaint feature of a Japanese house. The word means a place in which to lay a bed, ..."

5. The Book of a Hundred Houses: A Collection of Pictures, Plans and (1902)
"In all the chief rooms one end is formed of two alcoves called tokonoma and ... Now the guest is placed nearest the tokonoma, while the host chooses a lower ..."

6. Japan and Her People by Anna C. Hartshorne (1902)
"This tokonoma is said to be the raised seat where the Emperor would sit if ... Others say the tokonoma represents a primitive raised platform to sleep on, ..."

7. Japan and Her People by Anna C. Hartshorne (1904)
"The place just in front of the tokonoma is the most honorable scat, the place offered to ... All the woodwork of the tokonoma, and in the rest of the house, ..."

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