tokonoma

[ toh-kuh-noh-muh ]

/ ˌtoʊ kəˈnoʊ mə /

noun

(in Japanese architecture) a shallow alcove for the display of kakemonos or flower arrangements.

Origin of tokonoma

1895–1900; <Japanese, equivalent to toko (raised) floor + -no grammatical particle + ma room

Words nearby tokonoma

To Kill a Mockingbird, Toklas, tokodynamometer, tokology, tokoloshe, tokonoma, Tokorozawa, tokotoko, Tok Pisin, toktokkie, Tokugawa

Example sentences from the Web for tokonoma

In the tokonoma hangs a kakemon,—a wonderful writing by an ancient monk dealing with the evanescence of all earthly things.
The Book of Tea|Kakuzo Okakura
On the tokonoma, in a rare bronze of Sung workmanship, lay a single morning-glory—the queen of the whole garden!
The Book of Tea|Kakuzo Okakura
In a Japanese room the timber upright alongside the tokonoma is always a tree trunk in the rough.
The Foundations of Japan|J.W. Robertson Scott
With this the severed fragments of the hussy and her foetus were mingled, and thus concealed in the wall of the tokonoma.
Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House)|James S. De Benneville

The Emperor, of course, never comes, and so the tokonoma is no more than a name.
Peeps at Many Lands: Japan|John Finnemore

单词	tokonoma
释义	tokonoma [ toh-kuh-noh-muh ] / ˌtoʊ kəˈnoʊ mə / noun (in Japanese architecture) a shallow alcove for the display of kakemonos or flower arrangements. Origin of tokonoma 1895–1900; <Japanese, equivalent to toko (raised) floor + -no grammatical particle + ma room Words nearby tokonoma To Kill a Mockingbird, Toklas, tokodynamometer, tokology, tokoloshe, tokonoma, Tokorozawa, tokotoko, Tok Pisin, toktokkie, Tokugawa Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for tokonoma In the tokonoma hangs a kakemon,—a wonderful writing by an ancient monk dealing with the evanescence of all earthly things. The Book of Tea\|Kakuzo Okakura On the tokonoma, in a rare bronze of Sung workmanship, lay a single morning-glory—the queen of the whole garden! The Book of Tea\|Kakuzo Okakura In a Japanese room the timber upright alongside the tokonoma is always a tree trunk in the rough. The Foundations of Japan\|J.W. Robertson Scott With this the severed fragments of the hussy and her foetus were mingled, and thus concealed in the wall of the tokonoma. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House)\|James S. De Benneville The Emperor, of course, never comes, and so the tokonoma is no more than a name. Peeps at Many Lands: Japan\|John Finnemore
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