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"Tokonoma"
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Cover of the doujinshi "Hakujitsu no Yoru" by the circle Tokonoma, released at Super Comic City Kansai 25, August 2018
Some items of interest out at the Portland Japanese Garden in Portland Oregon.
Top left: the item in the Tokonoma is called a Sumikazari. Three charcoal logs for the first tea ceremony of the new year.
Top right: Traditional new years toys, paddles and shuttlecock for playing hanetsuki, and koma, spinning tops.
Bottom left: Kagami Mochi. A traditional New Year's display.
Bottom right: The lower gate at the garden as you enter the grounds onto which a shimenawa has been affixed. Placing items such as this on an entryway of a home, or in this case, a garden, transforms the entryway into a portal of good fortune and protection. The Portland Japanese Garden has Matsukazari, Shime Kazari, and Shimenawa festooning the garden in a verity of locations.
The garden also offers Mizuhiki wreaths for sale in their gift shop while they last. This years wreaths were extra nice.
I chose to frame the wreath I got in a shadowbox to protect it.
It's Probably Love(?) by Tokonoma
Before and After.
Patina " Tokonoma " by Alexander Nurulaeff in exclusive for our client from U.S.A. : Mr. F.C. The TOKONOMA, literally 'place of beauty', is a part of the washitsu (the traditional room of a Japanese home and place of representation, also used for the tea ceremony). A niche usually measuring about one tatami, it is not a simple decorative element but rather a small shrine, slightly raised from the rest of the floor, where an ikebana composition or other decorations are arranged and the kakemono, a scroll a painting or calligraphy on rice paper, cotton, silk or other precious material is hung. #床の間 #ryokan #tokonoma#alexandernurulaeffdesign #dandyshoecare#thisweekoninstagram #photography#photographer #shoes #patina #artist#bespoke #likesforlike
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