Word: tokonoma
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...always return to the scene of their birth-so good Japanese believe. Last week the 8th Hirosaki Division was assembling under orders from the Emperor for duty in Manchuria. In hundreds of well-to-do Japanese homes parents hung long silken kakemono (scroll paintings) of wild ducks in the tokonoma* as tokens to bring their sons safely home again. Those who could afford it hung duck paintings by the man whom conservative Japanese regard as the greatest living wild fowl painter: Tetsuzan Hori, head of the Tokyo and Kyoto Fine Art Schools, one of the last exponents of the ancient...
...tokonoma or Corner of Honor is a small niche in one corner of the traditional Japanese parlor. Always before the tokonoma is a vase of flowers; in it hangs a single picture, generally the only picture in the house. The picture in the tokonoma is changed weekly or monthly according to the extent of the owner's collection...
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