Topic
tokonoma
2 pieces.
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Chabana & Kakemono: Flowers and Scrolls in the Tea Room The hanging scroll is the tea room's most important object, chosen and read first. A single seasonal flower answers it. Why chabana is not ikebana. 02
How to Read the Tea Room Scroll The kakemono in the tokonoma is the first thing a guest reads at a tea gathering. What the hanging scroll is, why it ranks first, and how to read a bokuseki.