tokonoma

Also between the men, and above them to the right, was Sato's tokonoma.

After a time, he lifted his head and studied the words on the tokonoma scroll.

A tokonoma, a raised platform, was in one corner.

Toshi stood him opposite the tokonoma, no doubt on purpose.

He translated the meaning of the tokonoma into its western counterpart: the fireplace.

Xenia took the call in her tokonoma, masking it from Frank.

Now she was suspended by her claws directly above the tokonoma and the chest it contained.

He went back across the office, through the open passageway to the tokonoma where Nicholas had first caught sight of him.

The tokonoma and its contents are essential elements of traditional Japanese interior decoration.

There was a TV in the room's tokonoma instead of a vase with a fresh flower.

The room is rather unusual that it has no tokonoma; an alcove where art or flowers are displayed.

The bathroom, with its tiny, deep tub, fascinated them, as did the tokonoma, the place in the house reserved for beauty.

Another characteristic development to arise from the lower vantage point were the tokonoma and chigaidana.

A recessed space called tokonoma is often present in traditional as well as modern Japanese living rooms.

One then proceeds to the tokonoma, or scroll alcove, and bows again.

The first was tokonoma, which he spelled correctly.

The tokonoma has been built in shoin-style, with shôji along its exterior side.

On the tokonoma niche rested a heavy iron-bound chest.

It has also been placed in the tokonoma, a small decorated alcove in the main room of the home.

Whereas, in a tearoom, the guest sits facing the tokonoma and enjoys its beauty.

Hassoan contains a tea room of four tatami mats with a tokonoma.

In English, tokonoma is usually called alcove.

The pillar on one side of the tokonoma is usually made of wood, specially prepared for the purpose.

The choice of toko-bashira determines the level of formality for the tokonoma.

As silently as she could, she climbed up a supporting pillar, far from the tokonoma.