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http://www.tokonoma.org
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| | The Tea House (Teakult, a Terebess Online különlapja) |
| | The tokonoma is the alcove found in every tea room. | | | In addition, any important tea items to be seen (but not used) in the tea ceremony will be placed there. | | | tokonoma with display for New Year's tea ceremony |
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http://www.terebess.hu/tea/teakunyho2.html
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| | Tokonoma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Perhaps due to the Buddhist origins of the tokonoma, stepping up inside it is strictly forbidden. | | | The tokonoma and its contents are essential elements of traditional Japanese interior decoration. | | | When seating guests in a Japanese-style room, the most important guest is generally placed closest to the tokonoma. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokonoma
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| | Elements of Traditional Japanese Interiors |
| | In the chaistu, the tea hut, the tokobashira is usually made from an unplaned trunk of a tree such as a cherry or cedar. | | | But there was at least one room that was done in a traditional style. | | | There are several components of the tokonoma that are usually present. |
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http://www.yoshinoantiques.com/Interior-article.html
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| | Cargo Q. Weasel - The Tokonoma |
| | The tokonoma is very important during the formal Japanese tea ceremony. | | | The guest and host may make conversation upon the subjects depicted before the tea is served. | | | I like the idea of a tokonoma in my house. |
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/cargoweasel/108129.html
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| | Jap House FigCapt E |
| | 10) Tokonoma in the tea-room "taishido", early 19th century, Keieiji, Nagoya. | | | Then he is brought to a particular place in the fields where he will guard the rice seedlings during the warm period of the year. | | | For the big festival banquet at night, for which the whole village assembles in the same house (toya), the holy object is set up in front of the tokonoma. |
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http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/412JapHouseFigE2.html
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| | Tokonoma (Decorative Alcove) |
| | The decorative alcove has historically been called the oshiita, however it is proper to use either of the terms. | | | The term tokonoma has a dual meaning, since it refers both to the alcove itself, as well as a room containing a decoirative alcove. | | | The items that were previously displayed on the foretable have become standardized. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ealac/V3613/shoin/decalcov.htm
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| | A Tea Ceremony Experience: Indoor Setting |
| | The post by the tokonoma, called toko-bashira, is made of a variety of interesting woods. | | | The tokonoma is usually a raised alcove of variable size. | | | The tokonoma is the place where objects of art are displayed and is considered the highest ranking part of a Japanese traditional room. |
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http://www.art.uiuc.edu/galleries/japanhouse/tea/2/5/is/2_25.html
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| | Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture - Tadashi Suzuki Lecture Transcription |
| | In the Meiji and Taisho periods, it became popular even among commoners to have a tokonoma in their house, which previously had been forbidden. | | | In traditional Japanese homes, there is an alcove in some part of the house called the tokonoma. | | | When there is a tokonoma in these spaces, one will find that the television now occupies it. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/dkc/sen/tadashi_suzuki_text.html
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| | The Tea House (Teakult, a Terebess Online különlapja) |
| | Inside the rodan, ash is poured in, gotoku or trivet, positioned and the kama or kettle, is set up. | | | - nana shaku-doko, seven shaku size, tokonoma width between 212-227cm (1 shaku is about 30.3cm) | | | - hasshaku-doko, eight shaku size, tokonoma width= 272 cm |
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http://www.terebess.hu/tea/teakunyho.html
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| | about |
| | The nursery imports approximately 100,000 trees per year from China, Japan, Korea and Israel as well as pots, tools and many bonsai related accessories. | | | All staff at Tokonoma has extensive knowledge in their own field and have been with the company for many years. | | | Tokonoma Bonsai was established over 35 years ago. |
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http://www.tokonomabonsai.co.uk/about.html
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| | Arts of Japan : Transcripts: Japanese Buddhism |
| | By the 14th or 15th century, however, they were widely used among the aristocracy and tea masters to decorate the tokonoma. | | | This area, known as the tokonoma, forms the focal point of a room. | | | This special area is distinguished from the rest of the room by its raised, highly polished or lacquered wooden base. |
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http://www.artsmia.org/arts-of-asia/japan/transcripts/script_scrolls4.cfm
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| | Japanese Interest Group (JIG) - Japanese Room |
| | There is a space of polished wood called a tokonoma, which features a hanging scroll, and a set of shelves known as chigaidana, to display other ornaments. | | | All the materials were made by Japanese specialists in the town of Yame in the Island of Kyushu, and the shoji and fusuma feature beautiful hand-made paper presented by the Mayor of the City for the purpose, along with a stone lantern, which stands outside, and a decorative lamp for the tokonoma. | | | The room is to be found behind a large wooden door in the main entrance hall of the Gibbs Building. |
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http://ssl.brookes.ac.uk/JIG/japan_room.htm
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| | Japanese room |
| | The joints are half-blind dovetails, the shelves are set in dovetail stopped housings in the inside walls. | | | The Tokonoma was fitted in front of a dry clay wall. | | | It is the area where all the personal objects of importance to the family are kept - perhaps a screen, perhaps the family motto. |
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http://www.woodworking.de/eng/welzel.htm
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| | JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan |
| | Each room in the home has a closet which is outfitted with shelves to store Japanese bedding ( futons) when not in use. | | | The tokonoma is a recessed alcove in the main room of Japanese homes, tea houses and traditional inns where seasonal works of art are displayed such as ikebana (flower arrangement) and hanging scrolls. | | | Today many Japanese homes are Western in style, however, most still have a tatami room which is used for special get-togethers or as a guest room. |
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http://www.japancorner.com/japanese_home.asp
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| | * Tokonoma - (Bonsai): Definition |
| | TOHI: Spruce ( Picea) TOKONAME : Japanse place famous for bonsai pots. | | | Tokonoma A particular area in a house where Bonsai are displayed. | | | A tokonoma is a traditional display niche or alcove in a home, where seasonal, are presented. |
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http://www.mimihu.com/bonsai/tokonoma.html
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| | Japanese Tea Ceremony |
| | After the exchange of greetings the guests (in the full-length tea ceremony) will be served a kaiseki. | | | The type of area is very important and will be found in living rooms of larger houses along with their presence in the tea room. | | | A tokonoma is an alcove which is a form of shrine. |
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http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/jtea.html
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| | GOOD NEWS The Christmas Party Show 1979 by Hugh Wreisner |
| | The RED tokonoma remains on, only slightly dimmed. | | | On the tokonoma is an arrangement of RED carnations, interspersed with a few RED foil flowers (which glitter). | | | The wall screens are brightly lighted but are backed with plain, rough" cloth instead of the former "Japanese prints." The moon lantern is also brightly lighted and shines down on the coffee table which is covered with a bright RED cloth. |
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http://www.op.org/domcentral/prov/hugofiles/xmas79.htm
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| | Visit at the Bonsai Museum: The Pots Hall |
| | Visit at the Bonsai Museum: The Pots Hall | | | ere you can admire a representation of the " tokonoma ", the most important part of the traditional Japanese house, where objects with high spiritual meaning are displayed. |
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http://www.crespibonsai.it/eng/salavasi.htm
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| | Japanese Cultural Glossary - traditional terms and pop-culture references |
| | See Also: Fusuma, Futon, Genkan, Irori, Kotatsu, Shoji, Tokonoma, Windchimes | | | Tatami mats are also said to have all sorts of health benefits - healing the body, soothing the mind, taking carbon dioxide out of the air, dehumidifying your apartment on a Summer's day. | | | A theoretical mode of transport used by people for whom money is no object. |
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http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~melmoth/japan/t.html
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| | JAANUS / tokonoma@°ÌÔ |
| | Tokonoma are called a great variety of names such as kamizadoko ãÀ° (lit. | | | Characteristics from both the * shoin ‘@ style alcoves and the styles of alcoves found in tea architecture were fused to produce the alcove common to ordinary dwellings. | | | Sometimes tokonoma are named after the tea master who designed them, for example * oribedoko D•”°, or for the particular width of the alcove, such as * daimedoko ‘ä—Ú°. |
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http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/t/tokonoma.htm
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| | Building a Tokonoma |
| | The "tokonoma" is an alcove in the main room of a traditional Japanese home. | | | The little tokonoma I have created here is far from traditional; the main aim for it was to provide navigational links and to frame for larger monitors a gallery image sized to the old 480 by 640 pixel window many of us still browse with. | | | For a true traditionalist the ikibana would be made up of seasonal flowers, and the scroll would also have calligraphy appropriate to the season. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~nomuse/brycepages/tokonomadata.html
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| | E-Budo.com - Tokonma |
| | At this later date, the area known as the tokonoma became smaller and was used for storing important family items. | | | Sometimes a small family shrine may be placed here, or some family heirloom instead. | | | The tokonoma was usually accompanied by a smaller alcove known as a chigaidana or little shelf area. |
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http://www.e-budo.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-4918.html
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| | Kameoka Corner |
| | In the tokonoma, there’s often two or three short, highly polished, shelves on which a very special piece of pottery or a flower arrangement is displayed. | | | In many Japanese teahouses and homes, particularly older homes, there is a place called a tokonoma which is the focal point in the main room. | | | The tokonoma is a raised alcove in which, typically, art work is displayed. |
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http://www.stillwater.org/SisterCities/English/KameokaCorner/20040613.html
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| | Japan Lite- Amy Chavez |
| | Since the tokonoma is set about 70 cm into the wall, I have always found the urge to place electronics inside there irresistible, and thus stored the stereo in half of my tokonoma. | | | Not that there was a TV there, but that there was a tokonoma there. | | | In the other open half, for many years I kept an imaginary tiger. |
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http://www.amychavez.addr.com/news/scripts/archives.cgi?category=1&view=11.28.04-3.02.05
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| | Bonsai display: Tokonoma |
| | onsai is traditionally exhibited in tokonoma, a kind of alcove, which represents the most important part of the Japanese house. |
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http://www.crespibonsai.it/eng/compl0.htm
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| | Tearoom Alcove |
| | The floor of this tokonoma is cherry, and the small window ( shitaji-mado) is latticed with thin bamboo. | | | The tearoom alcove ( tokonoma) is a space traditionally set aside in honor of the kami or Shinto gods. | | | Reflecting one of the ceiling designs, the bottom panel of the shoji is ajiro -style (thin slats of red cedar woven together). |
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http://www.sonic.net/~kiarts/alcove.html
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| | tokonoma -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The name is taken from a secondary feature called the shoin, a study alcove. | | | The shoin, tokonoma (alcove for the display of art objects), and chigai-dana (shelves built into the wall) are all formative elements of this style, which appeared in the Kamakura period (1192–1333) and derived from Zen Buddhist monastic dwellings. | | | A feature of the shoin architectural style, which originated in the Kamakura period (1192–1333), the tokonoma developed… |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9072764&query=alcove
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| | Asian Art I |
| | In the Muromachi period the tokonoma became a staple element in the type of architecture known as shoin zukuri [Shoin style]. | | | The tokonoma in the Spencer Museum Central Court is a symbolic blending of Zen temple, tea room, and domestic architecture tokonoma. | | | In contrast to the formal style and in keeping with the emphasis on simplicity and rusticity, the tea room tokonoma had plain plastered walls and unpainted posts, sometimes made from unhewn branches. |
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http://www.ku.edu/~sma/online/asian_art1/tokonoma.html
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| | Shoin Room (shoin_room) Object Page Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| | This room's large size, with its capacious tokonoma filling one wall and its gold-leafed doors defining others, is characteristic of the grand rooms of the Momoyama era in temples and aristocratic mansions, as well as in the ostentatious castles of the newly risen warlords. | | | The shoin (literally, "study") was originally part of a reading room in a Zen monastery fitted with shelves and an alcove near a window. | | | The refined proportions of this room, with its large alcove ( tokonoma), flooring of grass mats (tatami), and decorated sliding doors ( fusuma) for walls, marked the culmination of two centuries of developments in interior architecture. |
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http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/momo/hod_shoin_room.htm
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| | History and Spirit of Ikebana |
| | This tradition is to be seen in the varieties of arrangement styles and in the different kinds of containers which are used. | | | In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when Buddhism spread among the common people, the architectural style wihch became prominent was one which included the tokonoma. | | | The cultural preferences of each age were manifested on the stage of the tokonoma, and the tradition of ikebana formed through the years has continued through the present. |
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http://www.holymtn.com/garden/Ikebana1.htm
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| | The Bonsai Primer: Displaying your Bonsai |
| | The other object may be either a viewing stone, or a small plant in a pot, referred to as an 'Accent' plant, or some other ornament, relevant to the time of year. | | | The bonsai is usually displayed on a wooden stand, called a 'Shoku'. | | | Often Bonsai are displayed in this 'Tokonoma', the tree being chosen for it's beauty at a particular time of year may be a Cherry in flower in the spring, or a Maple in autumn leaf. |
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http://www.bonsaiprimer.com/display/display.html
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| | Two Rivers Aikikai: Glossary: Etiquette |
| | If there is also a shrine for the Kami in the alcove, it is called a Kamiza. | | | Generally in Aikido, there are only white belts, kyu ranks and black belts, dan ranks with different levels of each. | | | If it should come open during class, turn away from the Tokonoma, close your dogi and retie your belt tightly. |
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http://www.2rivers.org/t3etiq.htm
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| | KODAMA |
| | The tokonoma, a Japanese decorative alcove, can be realized in many different shapes and styles. | | | The main function of a tokonoma is to be a focal point, a place to put a simple but beautiful object on display so that the attention can come to rest on a beautiful flower or a hanging scroll. |
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http://www.kodama.nl/tokonoma_eng.htm
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| | Ikebana |
| | Ikebana is now placed in the living room, or on a table so that all those seated there may enjoy it. | | | Most important of all, ikebana is no longer limited to the tokonoma, but is now used to decorate any part of the house. | | | Japanese homes have been greatly modernized and the importance of the tokonoma has dwindled. |
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http://www.zenkyoshin.com/ikebana.htm
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| | Tokonoma |
| | The decorative alcove, called tokonoma in Japanese, is considered one of the four essential elements in the main hall of a noble residence. | | | Upon entry to a traditional Japanese tea house, for example, you'll typically spend a few moments in fron of your host's tokonoma kneeling, observing. | | | In the traditional Japanese house, there is, by western standards, little artwork on the walls. |
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http://www.japanese-interiors.com/tokonoma.htm
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| | alcove - tokonoma |
| | The alcove (tokonoma) is a common part of a tatami room. | | | The items are often changed periodically to reflect the season or the occasion. | | | Seasonal flower arrangements, scrolls, and other special items or works of art are displayed in the tokonoma. |
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http://www.imtc.gatech.edu/i-irasshai/3/301/30106/30106i03/30106i03.htm
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| | Framed Tokonoma |
| | In the Japanese home, tea house or Zendo, the tokonoma is the focal point of the main room. | | | It is a raised alcove in which art is displayed, usually a hanging scroll and a flower arrangement. |
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http://www.toshoin.com/tokonoma.html
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| | Tokonoma |
| | List all words starting with tokonoma, words containing tokonoma or words ending with tokonoma | | | Browse words starting with tokonoma by next letter | | | Try a search for tokonoma in these online resources (some words may not be found): |
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http://www.morewords.com/word/tokonoma
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| | MILITARY-ARISTOCRATIC JAPAN: PAGE 48 - IMAGES 70 and 71 |
| | The shape of the average tokonoma was especially suitable for vertical hanging scrolls decorated either with pictorial scenes or with samples of calligraphy." | | | "The arranging of cut flowers for exhibition in the tokonoma, moreover, was developed during the medieval age into an art that came to take its place alongside the tea ceremony as one of the most basic of the polite accomplishments of the Japanese." (4) | | | "The tokonoma was the most distinctive feature of the shoin tea ceremony room, since it lent itself to the display of such things as paintings, flower arrangements, porcelain, and ceramicware. |
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http://www.csuohio.edu/history/lectures/MAJ/majjpn49.html
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| | kakejiku - tokonoma scroll |
| | The tokonoma generally has one scroll, called a kakejiku, hanging on the back wall. | | | The slightly raised floor usually has a flower vase or some other object. |
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http://www.siskiyous.edu/NCTA/Japan2003/PhotoGlossary/kakejiku.htm
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| | Untitled Document |
| | It is stained and lacquered to give you the feeling that it has been in place for years. | | | tatami size sukiya style room is complete with shoji panels, fusuma doors, tokonoma with tokobashira, chigai dana and a ro-buchi for winter tea ceremonies. | | | It too adds to the feeling that this tokonoma might have once been in an old minka, farmhouse. |
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http://www.yoshinoantiques.com/tea-room.html
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| | Kanji matches for "object placed in tokonoma" (Ideogear) |
| | These are combination matches, in which two kanji are combined to create one meaning, for the concept object placed in tokonoma. | | | Kanji combinations that mean object placed in tokonoma | | | The following matches were found for the concept object placed in tokonoma : |
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http://www.ideogear.com/word/45BC
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