Japan - Traditional Reception Room with Tokonoma
A Tokonoma, the decorated Alcove of a traditional Japanese Reception Room, complete with sliding screen doors and tatami mats. A Tokonoma is used for the display of paintings, pottery, flower arrangements, and other forms of art. Household accessories are removed when not in use so that the tokonoma found in almost every Japanese house, is the focal point of the interior
Picture No
13746259
Media ID
45933589
Size
5265px x 3412px
(3.0MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed Japanese postcard
Date
circa 1910s
